Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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German scientist, satirist
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's Degrees
- Doctorate Physics University of Göttingen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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. He is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called , 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.
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