Gustav Kirchhoff

Gustav Kirchhoff
Born	(1824-03-12)12 March 1824 Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
Died	17 October 1887(1887-10-17) (aged 63) Berlin, German Empire
Resting place	Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof
Alma mater	University of Königsberg
Known for	Kirchhoff's circuit laws Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation Kirchhoff's laws of spectroscopy Kirchhoff's law of thermochemistry
Awards	Rumford medal (1862) Davy Medal (1877) Matteucci Medal (1877) Janssen Medal (1887)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics Mathematics
Institutions	University of Berlin University of Breslau University of Heidelberg
Doctoral advisor	Franz Ernst Neumann[citation needed]
Notable students	Loránd Eötvös Gabriel Lippmann[citation needed] Dmitri Mendeleev Edward Nichols Max Noether Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Jules Piccard Max Planck Ernst Schröder

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (German: [ˈkɪʁçhɔf]; 12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist and mathematician who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.^[1][2]

He coined the term black-body radiation in 1860.

Several different sets of concepts are named "Kirchhoff's laws" after him, which include Kirchhoff's circuit laws, Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation, and Kirchhoff's law of thermochemistry.

The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Kirchhoff and his colleague, Robert Bunsen.