Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile.
Biography
As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany.
Today, he is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modeled on the English bookkeeping term "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of the strange tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.
See also
External links
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg @ Wikipedia
