Georg Ohm

thumb|Georg Ohm Georg Simon Ohm (16 March 1789 – 6 July 1854) 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. Quotes 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 of Georg Simon Ohm The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically, translated by William Francis D. Van Nostrand Co 1891 11 External links Category:Physicists from Germany Category:Educators from Germany Category:Non-fiction authors from Germany Category:Protestants Category:1789 births Category:1854 deaths