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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was born in Prussia on 12 March 1824 and trained as both physicist and mathematician. His early work cracked open electrical circuits, establishing principles still taught in every engineering course. By 1860 he had moved to light itself: working alongside Robert Bunsen, he helped invent spectroscopy and coined the term "black body" to describe how heated objects radiate. The method let them read the composition of distant stars from their glow. His reach stretched across thermochemistry and diffraction, each field claiming a Kirchhoff law. He died in Berlin on 17 October 1887, leaving physics with a sharper vocabulary and a set of tools it still hasn't outgrown.