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Georg Ohm
German physicist and mathematician (1789–1854)
Georg Simon Ohm (;[1]German:[ˈɡeːɔʁkˈʔoːm];[2][3] 16 March 1789 – 6 July 1854) was a German physicist and mathematician.
Ohm georg simon biography of george washington
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.
This relation is known as Ohm's law. The ohm (Ω), the SI unit of electrical resistance, is named after him.
Biography
Early life
Georg Simon Ohm was born into a Protestant family in Erlangen, Brandenburg-Bayreuth (then part of the Holy Roman Empire), son to locksmith Johann Wolfgang Ohm, and Maria Elizabeth Beck, daughter of a tailor in Erlangen.
Although his parents had not been formally educated, Ohm's father was a respected man who had educa