Ohm

Georg Simon Ohm

Born: 16 March 1789 in Erlangen, Bavaria (now Germany)
Died: 6 July 1854 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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Ohm became professor of mathematics at the Jesuit College of Cologne in 1817. He gave, between 1825 and 1827, a mathematical description of conduction in circuits modelled on Fourier's study of heat conduction.

What is now known as Ohm's law appaers in Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet (1827). His work strongly influenced theory but it was received with so little enthusiasm that Ohm's feeling were hurt and he resigned his position at Cologne.

He accepted a position at Nüremberg in 1833 and his work was eventually recognised by the Royal Society with its award of the Copley Medal in 1841. He became a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1842.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. H von Füchtbauer, Georg Simon Ohm. Ein Forscher wächst aus seiner Väter Art (Berlin, 1939).
  4. E Deuerlein, Georg Simon Ohm, 1789-1854 (Erlangen, 1939).
  5. G Baker, Georg Simon Ohm, Short wave magazine 52 (1953), 41.
  6. C Jungnickel and R McCormmach, Intellectual Mastery of Nature, 2 Volumes (Chicago, 1986). 
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