Georg Ohm
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Georg Simon Ohm, (March 16, 1789 Erlangen, Germany - July 6, 1854, Munich) German physicist, was born in Erlangen and educated at the university there.
He became professor at the college at Cologne in 1817 and in the polytechnic school of Nuremberg in 1833, and in 1852 became professor of experimental physics in the university of Munich, where he later died.
His writings were numerous. The most important was his pamphlet published in Berlin in 1827, with the title Die galvanische Kette mathematisch bearbeitet. This work, the germ of which had appeared during the two preceding years in the journals of Schweigger and Poggendorff, has exerted an important influence on the development of the theory and applications of electric current. Ohm's name has been incorporated in the terminology of electrical science in Ohm's Law (which he first published in Die galvanische Kette...), the proportionality of current and voltage in a resistor, and adopted as the SI unit of resistance, the ohm (symbol Ω).
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- Grundlinien zu einer zweckmäßigen Behandlung der Geometrie als höheren Bildungsmittels an vorbereitenden Lehranstalten / entworfen (Guidelines for an appropriate treatment of geometry in higher education at preparatory institutes / notes)
- Erlangen : Palm und Enke, 1817. - XXXII, 224 S., II Faltbl. : graph. Darst. (PDF, 11.2 MB)
- Die galvanische Kette : mathematisch bearbeitet (The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically)
- Berlin : Riemann, 1827. - 245 S. : graph. Darst. (PDF, 4.7 MB)
- Elemente der analytischen Geometrie im Raume am schiefwinkligen Coordinatensysteme (Elements of analytic geometry concerning the skew coordinate system)
- Nürnberg : Schrag, 1849. - XII, 590 S. - (Ohm, Georg S.: Beiträge zur Molecular-Physik ; 1) (PDF, 81 MB)
- Grundzüge der Physik als Compendium zu seinen Vorlesungen (Fundamentals of physics: Compendium of lectures)
- Nürnberg : Schrag, 1854. - X, 563 S. : Ill., graph. Darst. Erschienen: Abth. 1 (1853) - 2 (1854) (PDF, 38 MB)
[edit] Trivia
Georg famously married a child from Parkside Community College in an attempt to violate inheritance laws.
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[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Georg Ohm". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
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