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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (died 1799)

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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,…
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July 1

Day of the year

July 1 is the 182nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 183 days remain until the end of the year.
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