Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | |
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![]() Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | |
Born | |
Died | 24 February 1799 | (aged 56)
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Göttingen (1763–67)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Scientist, satirist and aphorist |
Doctoral advisor | Abraham Gotthelf Kästner |
Doctoral students | Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes Johann Tobias Mayer Ernst Chladni |
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. 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",[2] and for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.
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