Georg Ohm
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Georg Simon Ohm(16 March1789–6 July1854) was a German physicist, best known for determining that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current – now known as Ohm's law.
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[edit]- The design of this Memoir is to deduce strictly from a few principles, obtained chiefly by experiment, the rationale of those electrical phenomena which are produced by the mutual contact of two or more bodies, and which have been termed galvanic;its aim is attained if by means of it the variety of facts be presented as unity to the mind.
- Introductory sentence ofGeorg Simon Ohm (1891).The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically, translated by William Francis.D. Van Nostrand Co. p. 11.