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Gustav Kirchhoff

1824 - 1887

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Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (German: [ˈgʊstaːf ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈkɪʁçhɔf]; 12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German chemist, mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. He also coined the term black body 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustav Kirchhoff is the 49th most popular physicist (down from 32nd in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 47th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Physicist.

Gustav Kirchhoff is most famous for his law of thermodynamics which states that the sum of the heat absorbed by a system and the work done on the system is equal to the heat emitted by the system.

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Among physicists, Gustav Kirchhoff ranks 49 out of 851. Before him are William Gilbert, Luigi Galvani, Nevill Francis Mott, David J. Thouless, Charles Édouard Guillaume, and Philip Warren Anderson. After him are Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Brian Josephson, Gabriel Lippmann, K. Alex Müller, Wilhelm Wien, and Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis.

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Among people born in 1824, Gustav Kirchhoff ranks 5. Before him are William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Bedřich Smetana, Alexandre Dumas fils, and Anton Bruckner. After him are Stonewall Jackson, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Maria Alexandrovna, Eugène Boudin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Paul Broca, and Dayananda Saraswati. Among people deceased in 1887, Gustav Kirchhoff ranks 1. After him are Alexander Borodin, Gustav Fechner, Eugène Edine Pottier, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Ivan Kramskoi, Multatuli, Jenny Lind, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Juan, Count of Montizón, Alfred Krupp, and Jules Laforgue.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gustav Kirchhoff ranks 52 out of 3,761. Before him are E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Alexander Nevsky (1220), Ivan Turgenev (1818), and Paul I of Russia (1754). After him are Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895), Georgy Malenkov (1902), Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), Wilhelm Wien (1864), Alexander Kerensky (1881), and Georg Cantor (1845).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Gustav Kirchhoff ranks 1. After him are Wilhelm Wien (1864), Andrei Sakharov (1921), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Ilya Frank (1908), Igor Tamm (1895), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), and Nikolay Basov (1922).

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