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Georg Ohm

1789 - 1854

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Georg Simon Ohm (; German: [oːm] ; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Ohm is the 26th most popular physicist (down from 22nd in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Germany (down from 55th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Physicist.

Georg Ohm is most famous for his law of electromagnetism, which states that the voltage across a conductor is proportional to the current flowing through it.

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Among physicists, Georg Ohm ranks 26 out of 851. Before him are Ernest Rutherford, Edward Victor Appleton, Werner Heisenberg, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Enrico Fermi, and John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh. After him are Robert Hooke, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson, Ibn al-Haytham, and Heinrich Hertz.

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Among people born in 1789, Georg Ohm ranks 1. After him are Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, James Fenimore Cooper, Princess Charlotte of Denmark, William John Swainson, María Isabella of Spain, Friedrich List, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Horace Vernet, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, and Heinrich Schwabe. Among people deceased in 1854, Georg Ohm ranks 1. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Abbas I of Egypt, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Johann Peter Eckermann, Charles III, Duke of Parma, Józef Elsner, Zénaïde Bonaparte, Karl Adolph von Basedow, and Fructuoso Rivera.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Ohm ranks 57 out of 7,253. Before him are Marlene Dietrich (1901), Alexander von Humboldt (1769), Thomas Mann (1875), Gerd Müller (1945), William I, German Emperor (1797), and Adolf Eichmann (1906). After him are Hildegard of Bingen (1098), Erwin Rommel (1891), Jacques Offenbach (1819), Heinrich Hertz (1857), Hannah Arendt (1906), and Eva Braun (1912).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Georg Ohm ranks 5. Before him are Albert Einstein (1879), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Max Planck (1858), and Werner Heisenberg (1901). After him are Heinrich Hertz (1857), Max Born (1882), Max von Laue (1879), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Johannes Stark (1874), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), and Georg Bednorz (1950).

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