Gustav Robert Kirchoff (1824 - 1887)

Name: Gustav Robert Kirchoff

DOB: 1824

Died:  1887
Discoveries: accomplished studies on the theory of electrical circuits

G.R.K, a German born physicist was born in Koenigsberg,in 1824 and died in Berlin in the year 1887.

His more notable scientific works were in the domain of thermal radiation and of spectral analysis. He was responsible for the discovery in 1861 together with Bunsen,of the rubidium and cerium;this work enabled the first explanation of the absorption stripes usually called Fraunhofer stripes.

He also accomplished studies on the theory of electrical circuits.

He was a physics professor at the University of Heidelberg. In 1874, he went to the University of Berlin and became member of the science Academy.