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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

1742 - 1799

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German: [ˈlɪçtn̩bɛʁk]; 1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg is the 184th most popular physicist (down from 156th in 2019), the 506th most popular biography from Germany (up from 525th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Physicist.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg is most famous for his aphorisms. He was a German scientist, philosopher, and satirist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ranks 184 out of 851. Before him are Martin Lewis Perl, Richard E. Taylor, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Burton Richter, Isamu Akasaki, and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga. After him are Jerome Isaac Friedman, Hans Geiger, Georg von Békésy, Douglas Osheroff, George Smoot, and Ilya Frank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ranks 6. Before him are Pope Pius VII, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Yemelyan Pugachev, and Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen. After him are James Wilson, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, Nicolas Leblanc, David Bushnell, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, and Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart. Among people deceased in 1799, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ranks 8. Before him are Pope Pius VI, Qianlong Emperor, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Pierre Beaumarchais, Joseph Black, and Lazzaro Spallanzani. After him are Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Tipu Sultan, Victoire of France, Heshen, Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ranks 506 out of 7,253. Before him are Gerhard Richter (1932), Dieter Bohlen (1954), Georg von Küchler (1881), Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria (1843), Erwin Panofsky (1892), and Heinrich Brüning (1885). After him are Johannes Rau (1931), Hans von Aachen (1552), Adam Weishaupt (1748), Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1817), Wied, Prince of Albania (1876), and Hans Luther (1879).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ranks 30. Before him are Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Gerd Binnig (1947), Ernst Abbe (1840), Polykarp Kusch (1911), Julius von Mayer (1814), and Herbert Kroemer (1928). After him are Hans Geiger (1882), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Max Delbrück (1906), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), and Wolfgang Paul (1913).

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