Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
1824–87
German physicist. Professor extraordinarius, Breslau, 1850–4; Heidelberg, 1854–75. Professor of theoretical physics, Berlin, 1875–86. Made major contributions to the study of electromagnetic radiation and electrical currents. A close friend of Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen; the two collaborated in laying the foundation of the method of spectral analysis, 1857–63.
Sources
DSB
NDB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
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