Gustav Kirchhoff
1824 CE–1887 CE · Königsberg
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (German: [ˈgʊstaːf ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈkɪʁçhɔf]; 12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) 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. Several different sets of concepts are named "Kirchhoff's laws" after him, which include Kirchhoff's circuit laws, Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation, Kirchhoff's diffraction formula, and Kirchhoff's law of thermochemistry. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Kirchhoff and his colleague, Robert Bunsen.
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KönigsbergקעניגסבערגEast Prussia
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About Königsberg
Königsberg (today Kaliningrad, Russia), then the capital of East Prussia, had a Jewish community of note and was an important center of Hebrew printing in the modern era. Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, founder of the Mussar movement, spent his final years working to strengthen Orthodox Jewish life in Germany and Prussia and died in Königsberg in 1883.
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Friedrich Bessel, Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Lipschitz, Arnold Sommerfeld
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- Friedrich Schleiermacher· Berlin
- Jacob Joseph Oettinger· Berlin
- Ksav VeHakabbalah· Königsberg
- Leopold Zunz· Berlin
- Elhanan Rosenstein· Berlin
- Joseph Zedner· Berlin
- Samuel Holdheim· Berlin
- Michael Sachs· Berlin
- Yisrael Salanter· Königsberg
- Abraham Geiger· Berlin
- Avraham Eisenstadt· Königsberg
- Søren Kierkegaard· Berlin
- Moritz Steinschneider· Berlin
- Azriel Hildesheimer· Berlin
- Louis Lewandowski· Berlin
- Elias Plessner· Berlin
- Hermann Cohen· Berlin
- Dovid Tzvi Hoffman· Berlin
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