17 Facts About Georg Ohm

Georg Simon Ohm was born into a Protestant family in Erlangen, Brandenburg-Bayreuth, son to locksmith Johann Wolfgang Ohm, and Maria Elizabeth Beck, daughter of a tailor in Erlangen.

Georg Ohm Simon attended Erlangen Gymnasium from age eleven to fifteen where he received little in the area of scientific training, which sharply contrasted with the inspired instruction that both Georg Ohm and Martin received from their father.

Georg Ohm wanted to restart his mathematical studies with Langsdorf in Heidelberg.

Langsdorf advised Georg Ohm to pursue mathematical studies on his own, and suggested that Georg Ohm read works of Euler, Laplace and Lacroix.

Rather reluctantly Georg Ohm took his advice but he left his teaching post in Gottstatt Monastery in March 1809 to become a private tutor in Neuchatel.

Georg Ohm immediately joined the faculty there as a lecturer in mathematics but left after three semesters because of unpromising prospects.

The Bavarian government offered him a post as a teacher of mathematics and physics at a poor quality school in Bamberg which Georg Ohm accepted in January 1813.

Unhappy with his job, Georg Ohm began writing an elementary textbook on geometry as a way to prove his abilities.

The physics laboratory was well equipped, allowing Georg Ohm to begin experiments in physics.

Georg Ohm's college did not appreciate his work and Georg Ohm resigned from his position.

Georg Ohm then made an application to, and was employed by, the Polytechnic School of Nuremberg.

Georg Ohm arrived at the Polytechnic School of Nuremberg in 1833, and in 1852 he became a professor of experimental physics at the University of Munich.

Georg Ohm died in Munich in 1854, and is buried in the Alter Sudfriedhof.

Georg Ohm believed that the communication of electricity occurred between "contiguous particles" which is the term he himself used.

The work of Georg Ohm marked the early beginning of the subject of circuit theory, although this did not become an important field until the end of the century.

Georg Ohm became a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1842, and in 1845 he became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

At some extent, Charles Wheatstone drew attention to the definitions which Georg Ohm had introduced in the field of physics.