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Ohm's law states that the electric current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points, for a given temperature.

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Proposed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1827 1
Proposed BySourced to the subject's own account
Georg Simon Ohm 1
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1. Ohm's Law (Wikipedia)
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Ohm's law states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points.
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1. Ohm's Law (Wikipedia)
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Georg Simon Ohm published his law in his 1827 treatise Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet.
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1. Ohm's Law (Wikipedia)
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Georg Simon Ohm published his law in his 1827 treatise Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet.
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Ohm did his work on resistance in the years 1825 and 1826, and published his results in 1827 as the book Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet (The galvanic circuit investigated mathematically).
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