Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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", and for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | |
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | |
| Born | 1 July 1742 |
| Died | 24 February 1799 (aged 56) |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen (1763–67) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Scientist, satirist and aphorist |
| Doctoral advisor | Abraham Gotthelf Kästner |
| Doctoral students | Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes Johann Tobias Mayer Ernst Chladni |
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