Ohm, GEORG SIMON, physicist, born at Erlangen, 16th March 1787, became in 1849 professor at Munich, and died there 7th July 1854. For Ohm's Law and the ohm as a measure of electric resistance, see ELECTRICITY, Vol. IV. p. 267.
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