Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

German scientist, satirist

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1742

Place of Birth: Ober-Ramstadt, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 24-Feb-1799

Profession: astronomer, writer, physicist, mathematician, French moralist, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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 "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.

After Johann Ludwig Strecker (1721–1799)
Alternative names	Strecker
Description	German portrait painter
Date of birth/death	7 May 1721	12 September 1799
Location of birth/death	Darmstadt	Darmstadt
Work location	Darmstadt
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