Mathematician:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff

Mathematician
Prussian physicist contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.

Nationality
Prussian

History

 * Born: 12 March 1824 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
 * Died: 17 October 1887 in Berlin, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

 * Kirchhoff's Circuit Laws:
 * Kirchhoff's Voltage Law
 * Kirchhoff's Current Law


 * Kirchhoff Equations
 * Kirchhoff-Love Plate Theory (with )
 * Piola-Kirchhoff Stress Tensor (with )
 * Kirchhoff's Law of Thermal Radiation
 * Kirchhoff's Three Laws of Spectroscopy
 * Kirchhoff's Theorem
 * Kirchhoff's Diffraction Formula
 * Kirchhoff Integral Theorem

Books and Papers

 * 1860: Ueber die Fraunhoferschen Linien