Gustav Kirchhoff

✶March 12, 1824

†October 17, 1887

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Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was a German physicist and mathematician 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 in 1860.

German physicist and mathematician (1824–1887)

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