Georg Ohm
Georg Simon Ohm was a German mathematician and physicist. 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 known as Ohm's law.
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- Born in
- Erlangen
- Educated at
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGymnasium Fridericianum Erlangen
- Awards
- 🏆 Copley Medal🏆 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society🏆 honorary citizen of Nuremberg
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Karl Christian von Langsdorf
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1789
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Birth1854
Died
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