Georg Ohm Facts
Georg Ohm Facts
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| Ohm was born in Erlangen, Germany, and was the son of a locksmith. |
| Although not formally educated, Ohm's father had educated himself to a high level and taught his sons mathematics, physics, chemistry and philosophy. |
| In 1800 to 1804 Ohm attended the Erlangen Gymnasium and in 1806 he accepted a position as a mathematics teacher in a school in Switzerland. |
| He continued to teach himself mathematics until April 1811 when he returned to the University of Erlangen. |
| On October 25, 1811 he received his PhD in mathematics from the University and joined the faculty there. |
| In January 1813 he taught at a school in Bamberg while he wrote an elementary textbook on geometry. |
| Ohm sent the completed manuscript to King Wilhelm III who approved of the book and offered Ohm a position at the more prestigious Jesuit Gymnasium of Cologne. |
| The school had a good physics laboratory and Ohm began to experiment in physics. |
| In 1827 Ohm published The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically which contained the first publication of Ohm's Law. |
| Ohm's Law states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the potential difference across the two points. |
| His work was not well received by his school and he resigned his position. |
| In 1833 he applied for and received a post at the Polytechnic School of Nuremberg. |
| He left in 1852 to take the position of professor of experimental physics at the University of Munich. |
| While his work was not well received for some years, its importance was eventually recognized and he received the Copley Medal in 1841. |
| He became a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1842 and a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1845. |
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