Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (born 1742)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

German scientist and satirist (1742–1799)

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,…