Kirchhoff, GUSTAV ROBERT, physicist (1824-87), became professor in Berlin University in 1874. He distinguished himself in the departments of elasticity, the mechanical theory of heat, optics, and especially of spectrum-analysis. See SPECTRUM; and Life by Boltzmann (Leip. 1888).
Kirchhoff, GUSTAV ROBERT
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