Georg Ohm

Georg Ohm
Born
Georg Simon Ohm

(1789-03-16)16 March 1789
Died6 July 1854(1854-07-06) (aged 65)
Resting placeAlter Südfriedhof, Munich
Alma materUniversity of Erlangen (PhD, 1811)
Known forOhm's law (1827)
RelativesMartin Ohm (brother)
AwardsCopley Medal (1841)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisorKarl Christian von Langsdorf

Georg Simon Ohm (/m/;[1] German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈziːmɔn ˈoːm];[2][3] 16 March 1789 – 6 July 1854) was a German mathematician and physicist. As a school teacher, Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm found that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current. This relation is known as Ohm's law.

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  2. ^ Dudenredaktion; Kleiner, Stefan; Knöbl, Ralf (2015) [First published 1962]. Das Aussprachewörterbuch [The Pronunciation Dictionary] (in German) (7th ed.). Berlin: Dudenverlag. pp. 398, 645. ISBN 978-3-411-04067-4.
  3. ^ Krech, Eva-Maria; Stock, Eberhard; Hirschfeld, Ursula; Anders, Lutz Christian (2009). Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch [German Pronunciation Dictionary] (in German). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 536, 788. ISBN 978-3-11-018202-6.

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