Kirchhoff biography

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Solar gold and circuit laws

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, who was born in Königsberg on 12 March 1824, may not be the best-known German physicist, but he is certainly one of the most influential.

His laws and writings on electrical circuits are particularly influential. However, he is also regarded as the founder of theoretical physics as well as the father of spectral analysis, the radiation law named after him and the "black-body radiation".

Kirchhoff was a "high-flyer" at university, as one would say today: as a young student in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), he formulated electrotechnical laws that were later named after him.

Kirchhoff biography

They describe the relationships between currents, voltages and resistances in branched circuits. One of his professors was the mathematician Friedrich Julius Richelot, whose daughter Clara he later married. Kirchhoff received his doctorate from the Albertus University in 1847.

He moved to Berlin and habili