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Gustav Kirchhoff

Date of Birth 12-March-1824
Place of Birth Kaliningrad
(Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)
Nationality Germany, German Empire, Prussia
Also know as Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
Profession Physicist
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. He coined the term "black body" radiation in 1862, and two different sets of concepts are named "Kirchhoff's laws" after him; there is also a Kirchhoff's Law in thermochemistry. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after him and his colleague, Robert Bunsen.

Awards by Gustav Kirchhoff

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1862


Rumford Medal
(For his researches on the fixed lines of the solar spectrum, and on the inversion of the bright lines in the spectra of artificial light.)