Kirchhoff Explained

Kirchhoff, Kirchoff or Kirchhoffer is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Adolf Kirchhoff (1826–1908), German classical scholar and epigrapher
• Alfred Kirchhoff (1838–1907), German geographer and naturalist
• Alphonse Kirchhoffer (1873–1913), French Olympic fencer
• Charles William Henry Kirchhoff (1853-1916), American editor and metals expert
• Detlef Kirchhoff (born 1967), German rower
• Fritz Kirchhoff (1901–1953), German screenwriter, film producer and director
• Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887), German physicist — Kirchhoff's laws in electricity, spectroscopy, thermochemistry
• Gottlieb Kirchhoff (1764–1833), German chemist
• Jan Kirchhoff (born 1990), German footballer
• John Nesbitt Kirchhoffer (1848–1914), Canadian politician
• Mary Kirchoff (born 1959), American fantasy novelist
• Paul Kirchhoff (1900–1972), German anthropologist and ethnologist of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures
• Robert Kirchhoff (born 1962), Slovak film director
• Richard A. Kirchhoffer (1890–1977), bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis
• Ulrich Kirchhoff (born 1967), German show jumper

See also

• 10358 Kirchhoff, a main-belt asteroid
• Kirchhoff (crater), the lunar crater named for Gustav Kirchhoff
• Kirchhoff Institute of Physics, a research institute in Heidelberg, Germany
• Kirchhoff's laws, a group of laws of physics (in thermodynamics, electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and fluid mechanics) named for Gustav Kirchhoff
• Kirchhoff's theorem, in graph theory, a theorem concerning the number of "spanning trees" in a graph, named for Gustav Kirchhoff
• Kirchhof (disambiguation)