Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist (1824–1887)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Kirchhoff mapped how electricity flows through circuits and figured out what hot objects actually emit—he basically gave us the vocabulary for black-body radiation back in 1860.
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Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was a German physicist and mathematician who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. He coined the term black body in 1860.
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