Physicist and mathematician
Kirchhoff was born on 12 March 1824 and died on 17 October 1887.
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Gustav Kirchhoff
Contributions to the understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and black-body radiation.
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was a German physicist and mathematician. He contributed to the study of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the radiation emitted by heated objects. Several scientific laws and formulas bear his name.
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The laws that bear his name
Concepts named after him include Kirchhoff's circuit laws, law of thermal radiation, diffraction formula, and law of thermochemistry.
The term “black body”
Kirchhoff coined the term “black body” in 1860.
Recognition in spectroscopy
The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Kirchhoff and his colleague Robert Bunsen.
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