Georg Simon Ohm
Georg Simon Ohm (March 16, 1789 - July 6, 1854) was a German physicist and mathematician best known for formulating Ohm’s Law, one of the foundational principles of electricity. This law states that the electric current through a conductor is directly proportional to the voltage and inversely proportional to the electrical resistance of the material, expressed by the formula \(V = IR\). Although his discoveries were initially overlooked by the scientific community, his work is now fundamental in electrical engineering and physics education. In his honor, the unit of electrical resistance is named the ohm \((\Omega)\).
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- 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.