Bibliography of Georg Simon Ohm
Georg Simon Ohm was a German physicist, born on March 16, 1789 in Erlangen.
He is the son of Johann Wolfgang Ohm and Maria Elizabeth Beck.
As a teenager, from the age of eleven to fifteen, he studied at the Erlangen high school and at the same time received a fairly advanced education from his father in mathematics, physics, chemistry and philosophy.
It was in this same year, 1811, that Georg Simon Ohm obtained his doctorate at the University of Erlangen.
After obtaining his doctorate, he joined the professorial team at the University of Erlangen, which he left shortly afterwards due to a lack of career prospects.
In 1813 he accepted a position as a professor of mathematics and physics at a school in Bamberg, until its closure in 1816.
Not being in a good school, and not happy in his job, he devotes the rest of his time to writing a book on elementary geometry.
Frederick William III of Prussia
In 1817, the manuscript being completed, he presented it to King Frederick William III of Prussia who, satisfied with his work, offered him a position at the Jesuit high school in Cologne on September 11, 1817.
So it was at this time that he began experimenting in the physics laboratory.
In 1825 he began to publish the results of his experiments on current and voltage measurements, in which he demonstrated the decrease in the electromagnetic force that passes through a cable as it was longer.
In 1826 he received a generous sum of money to spend a year in Berlin to work on his publications.
Ohm thought that with his publications they would offer him a good position at the university before returning to Cologne, but by 1827 time was running out and he received no better offers.
Feeling diminished, he decided to stay in Berlin, resigning from his post in Cologne a year later.
In 1827 he published a book " Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet " (The galvanic circuit studied mathematically) in which he presented his discovery.
The book, A Theory of Electricity in which he established the relationship between the intensity of an electric current, its electromotive force and its resistance, formulating the law that bears his name.
He held various jobs in Berlin schools until 1833, when he then accepted a professorship at the University of Nuremberg.
Publication of results
In 1841 his work was recognized by the Royal Society and he received the "Copley Medal" and was also incorporated into several other academies in Turin and Berlin.
In 1845 he was an active member of the Bayerische Akademie.
In 1849 Georg Simon Ohm accepted a position in Munich as curator of the physics department of the Bayerische Akademie, where he gave numerous lectures at the University of Munich.
In 1852 he finally achieved the position he had aspired to all his life and was appointed full professor of physics at the University of Munich.
Additionally, the unit of electrical resistance, Ohm, is named in his honor.
He died on July 6, 1854 in Munich.
Royal Society and Death
In 1805, he entered the University of Erlangen, he was then 15 years old and was introduced to mathematics by one of his teachers, Karl Christian von Langsdorf.
Not being very diligent in his studies, in 1806, Johann Ohm (his father) sent him to Switzerland, near Nidau to a school, the "Gottstadt institution" where he took a post as a mathematics teacher.
In 1809, he left his position as professor at the Gottstadt institution for a position as tutor in Neuchatel.
Under the guidance of his teacher Karl Christian von Langsdorf, he continued his studies in mathematics, returning to the University of Erlangen in 1811.
While continuing his studies, he read the texts of the most important French mathematicians Lagrange, Legendre, Laplace, Fourier and Fresnel, etc.