Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1742 – 1799 · aged 57
German scientist and satirist (1742-1799)
- Born
- 1 Jul 1742 · Ober-Ramstadt
- Died
- 24 Feb 1799 · Göttingen
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- 1 Jul 1742BornBorn in Ober-Ramstadt
- 24 Feb 1799DiedDied in Göttingen
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- 1756 – 1763Seven Years' War
- c. 1760 – 1840Industrial Revolution
- 1765 – 1783American Revolution
- 1789 – 1799French Revolution
Biography
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German: [ˈlɪçtn̩bɛʁk]; 1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. He was the first person in Germany to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics. He is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modelled on the English bookkeeping term "waste books" or "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of the tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.
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