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(1787 - 1854) 
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Georg Ohm was born in Erlangen, Germany. He was a physicist whose work on electrical currents resulted in the discovery of a mathematical law of electric current flow that is called Ohm's Law. The ohm is a unit of electrical resistance and it was named for him. It is equal to that of a conductor in which a current of one ampere is produced by a potenital of one volt across its terminals. For the latter part of his life, Ohm was a professor of experimental physics at the University of Munich. |