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Gustav Kirchhoff

1824 - 1887

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Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (German: [ˈgʊs.taf ˈkɪʁçhɔf]; 12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist, mathematican and chemist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustav Kirchhoff has received more than 897,745 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Gustav Kirchhoff is the 32nd most popular physicist, the 47th most popular biography from Russia (up from 55th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Physicist.

Gustav Kirchhoff is most famous for his law of thermodynamics which states that the sum of the heat absorbed by a system and the work done on the system is equal to the heat emitted by the system.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gustav Kirchhoff ranks 32 out of 851. Before him are Edward Teller, Heinrich Hertz, Hendrik Lorentz, Daniel Bernoulli, Ibn al-Haytham, and Luigi Galvani. After him are Max Born, Andrei Sakharov, Paul Dirac, Richard Feynman, Henry Cavendish, and Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Gustav Kirchhoff ranks 4. Before him are Bedřich Smetana, Anton Bruckner, and Alexandre Dumas fils. After him are William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Eugène Boudin, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Maria Alexandrovna, Paul Broca, Pierre Janssen, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and Wilkie Collins. Among people deceased in 1887, Gustav Kirchhoff ranks 1. After him are Alexander Borodin, Gustav Fechner, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Jenny Lind, Eugène Edine Pottier, Ivan Kramskoi, Multatuli, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Friedrich von Amerling, Alfred Krupp, and Juan, Count of Montizón.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gustav Kirchhoff ranks 47 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901), Turhan Hatice Sultan (1627), Vyacheslav Molotov (1890), Elizabeth of Russia (1709), and Paul I of Russia (1754). After him are Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Boris Pasternak (1890), Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), Andrei Sakharov (1921), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), and Georgy Malenkov (1902).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Gustav Kirchhoff ranks 1. After him are Andrei Sakharov (1921), Wilhelm Wien (1864), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Igor Tamm (1895), Nikolay Basov (1922), Ilya Frank (1908), and Pyotr Kapitsa (1894).

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