Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
July 1, 1742 –February 24, 1799
Physicist, Astronomer, Writer, Mathematician, University teacher, Moralist
Lived 56 years
- Born in
- Ober-Ramstadt
- Passed away in
- Göttingen
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.
Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society Education: University of Göttingen
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