References for Georg Simon Ohm

Version for printing
  1. K L Caneva, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

  1. E Deuerlein, Georg Simon Ohm, 1789-1854 (Erlangen, 1939).
  2. C Jungnickel and R McCormmach, Intellectual Mastery of Nature : Theoretical physics from Ohm to Einstein, 2 Volumes (Chicago, 1986).
  3. H von Füchtbauer, Georg Simon Ohm. Ein Forscher wächst aus seiner Väter Art (Berlin, 1939).

Articles:

  1. T Archibald, Tension and potential from Ohm to Kirchhoff, Centaurus 31 (2) (1988), 141-163.
  2. G Baker, Georg Simon Ohm, Short wave magazine 52 (1953), 41.
  3. B Pourprix, G S Ohm théoricien de l'action contigue, Arch. Internat. Hist. Sci. 45 (134) (1995), 30-56.
  4. B Pourprix, La mathématisation des phénomènes galvaniques par G S Ohm (1825-1827), La mathématisation 1780-1830, Rev. Histoire Sci. 42 (1-2) (1989), 139-154.
  5. R S Turner, The Ohm-Seebeck dispute, Hermann von Helmholtz, and the origins of physiological acoustics, British J. Hist. Sci. 10 (34) (1) (1977), 1-24.
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