Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 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. Wikipedia
Born: July 1, 1742, Ober-Ramstadt, Germany
Died: February 24, 1799 (age 56 years), Göttingen, Germany
Books: Aphorisms
Parents: Johann Conrad Lichtenberg and Catharina Henriette Eckard
Spouse: Margarethe Kellner (m. 1789–1799)
Doctoral students: Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes; Johann Tobias Mayer; Ernst Chladni
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