Georg Ohm

Georg Ohm
Born
Georg Simon Ohm

(1789-03-16)16 March 1789
Died6 July 1854(1854-07-06) (aged 65)
Alma materUniversity of Erlangen
Known for
RelativesMartin Ohm (brother)
AwardsCopley Medal (1841)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Mathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Munich
Doctoral advisorKarl Christian von Langsdorf

Georg Simon Ohm (/m/;[1] German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈʔoːm];[2][3] 16 March 1789 – 6 July 1854) was a German physicist and mathematician. 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 called Ohm's law, and the ohm, the unit of electrical resistance, is named after him.

  1. ^ "Ohm". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
  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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