Georg Simon Ohm

Also known as Georg Ohm

German physicist and mathematician

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Georg Simon Ohm was a German physicist and mathematician who made fundamental discoveries about how electricity behaves in circuits. His work matters because it established the basic laws that govern electrical current, voltage, and resistance, which form the foundation for all modern electrical engineering and technology.

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Instance of: human
Given name: Simon
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of Bavaria
Place of birth: Erlangen
Place of death: Munich
Sibling: Martin Ohm
Occupation: university teacher
Languages spoken: German
Notable work: Ohm's law
Doctoral advisor: Karl Christian von Langsdorf
Field of work: physics
Image: Gerog Ohm.jpg
Work location: Cologne
Residence: Principality of Bayreuth

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member of: Academy of Sciences of Turin
Commons category: Georg Ohm
date of birth: 1789-03-16
date of death: 1854-07-06
birth name: Georg Simon Ohm
topic's main category: Category:Georg Ohm
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name in native language: Georg Simon Ohm
place of burial: Alter Südfriedhof
writing language: German
student: Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
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Georg Simon Ohm (/oʊm/; German: [oːm] ; 16 March 1789 – 6 July 1854) 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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