biography
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Kirchhoff, Gustav (Robert)
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pronunciation:
[keerkhhohf]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1824–87)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). After lecturing at Berlin (1847), he became professor of physics at Wrocław, Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia) (1850)) and Heidelberg (1854), and of mathematical physics at Berlin (1875). He formulated the laws involved in the mathematical analysis of an electrical network (Kirchhoff's laws, 1845). He also investigated heat, and with Bunsen helped to develop the prism spectrometer and the technique of spectrum analysis, used in the discovery of caesium and rubidium (1859). |
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