Kirchhoff
Gus·tav Ro·bert [goos-tahf roh-bert], /ˈgʊs tɑf ˈroʊ bɛrt/, 1824–87, German physicist.
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Designers Edward Meadham and Benjamin Kirchhoff of Meadham Kirchoff are creating another collection for the high-street retailer.
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It was in 1859 that Kirchhoff and Bunsen first expounded to the world the true meaning of the dark lines in the solar spectrum.
In the Invocation Kirchhoff cuts out the allusion to the oxen of the Sun (lines 6-9) as being inconsistent with his theory.
Homer's Odyssey | Denton J. SniderKirchhoff dated the 'later redaction' of the Odyssey between Ol.
The Heroic Age | H. Munro Chadwick
We are therefore reduced to Kirchhoff's definition; force is equal to the mass multiplied by the acceleration.
To the school of mechanics to which Kirchhoff belongs, he opposes that which he bizarrely calls the school of the thread.
British Dictionary definitions for Kirchhoff
/ (German ˈkɪrçhɔf) /
Gustav Robert (ˈɡʊstaf ˈroːbɛrt). 1824–87, German physicist. With Bunsen he developed the method of spectrum analysis that led to their discovery of caesium (1860) and rubidium (1861): also worked on electrical networks
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Scientific definitions for Kirchhoff
[ kîr′kôf′ ]
German chemist who with Robert Bunsen discovered the elements cesium and rubidium. He also investigated the solar spectrum and researched electrical circuits and the flow of currents. His electromagnetic theory of diffraction is still the most commonly used in optics.
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