German physicist (1824–1887). Gustav Kirchhoff was born on 12 March 1824 in what is now the Russian Federation. Gustav Kirchhoff is remembered as a physicist, chemist and engineer, a citizen of the Kingdom of Prussia. Notable works include “Kirchhoff's circuit laws”, “Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation” and “Kirchhoff's theorem”.
Before and after
- 1824Joseph Fourier describes the greenhouse effect
- 1824William Buckland describes Megalosaurus, the first dinosaur to be named
- 2 March 1824Birth of Bedřich Smetana
- from 5 March 1824 to 24 February 1826First Anglo-Burmese War
- 12 March 1824Birth of Gustav Kirchhoff
- 19 April 1824Death of Lord Byron
- 7 May 1824Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premieres
- 6 August 1824Battle of Junín
- 4 September 1824Birth of Anton Bruckner
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