Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

(1742–1799) writer Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) was a Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt writer.

About Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 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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Fellow of the Royal Society

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