PHYSICIST

Georg Ohm

1789 - 1854

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Georg Simon Ohm (; German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈʔoːm]; 16 March 1789 – 6 July 1854) was a German physicist and mathematician. As a school teacher, Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm found that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Ohm has received more than 1,175,173 page views. His biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 91 in 2019). Georg Ohm is the 22nd most popular physicist (down from 18th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Germany (down from 49th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Physicist.

Georg Ohm is most famous for his law of electromagnetism, which states that the voltage across a conductor is proportional to the current flowing through it.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Georg Ohm ranks 22 out of 851. Before him are Werner Heisenberg, Evangelista Torricelli, Henri Becquerel, Enrico Fermi, André-Marie Ampère, and Erwin Schrödinger. After him are Christiaan Huygens, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, James Clerk Maxwell, Edward Teller, Heinrich Hertz, and Hendrik Lorentz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Georg Ohm ranks 1. After him are Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, James Fenimore Cooper, Friedrich List, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, María Isabella of Spain, Horace Vernet, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Abbas Mirza, Heinrich Schwabe, and Princess Charlotte of Denmark. Among people deceased in 1854, Georg Ohm ranks 1. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Abbas I of Egypt, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, Johann Peter Eckermann, Charles III, Duke of Parma, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Józef Elsner, Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, and Zénaïde Bonaparte.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Ohm ranks 55 out of 7,253. Before him are Felix Mendelssohn (1809), Heinrich Heine (1797), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Hannah Arendt (1906), Josef Mengele (1911), and Hildegard of Bingen (1098). After him are William I, German Emperor (1797), Klemens von Metternich (1773), Joseph Goebbels (1897), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Reinhard Heydrich (1904), and Eva Braun (1912).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Georg Ohm ranks 5. Before him are Albert Einstein (1879), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Max Planck (1858), and Werner Heisenberg (1901). After him are Heinrich Hertz (1857), Max Born (1882), Max von Laue (1879), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), J. Hans D. Jensen (1907), Johannes Stark (1874), and Otto von Guericke (1602).

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