Talk:Georg Ohm

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[edit] French or German?

I notice that this has been changed a few times, but I can't understand why, and it seems to me that Ohm should clearly be considered German. He spoke German, went to German universities, and I'm not aware that the location was ever part of France.

Shouldn't this be corrected back, or am I missing something?

Xgretsch (talk) 20:12, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ohm's birth year: 1787 or 1789???

I find different sources in which contain different information about his real born year. One of my book about him states that he was born on 1787, also I find some sources go along with this figure: [1], [2], [3], [4] etc.

while 1789 seems to be mentioned more frequently: [5], [6], [7], [8], Germany Wiki, etc.

So which one is true? Causesobad → (Talk) 14:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Someone who knows about Ohm's life should check this article.

I just fixed this, but this article used to say that Ohm's Law is the relationship between resistance and resistivity, which is terribly inaccurate. Unfortunately, that's pretty much all I know about Ohm. Also, the one cited source for this article seems to contain a very accurate definition of Ohm's Law, so it seems that this article doesn't actually stick to what the cited source says.

Also, maybe someone who is fluent in German can skim through Die galvanische Kette [9] and give a better description of how Ohm described the law. In the one I put in, I just verbalized V=IR (without saying resistance anywhere, since as far as I know, that term wasn't coined until later).

Misho88 (talk) 06:30, 3 February 2008 (UTC)