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Events on Sunday 24 February 1799 2
1742 – 1799Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)Died 24 February 1799, aged 56German physicist and satirist at the University of Göttingen. He discovered the branching electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures. His notebooks of aphorisms made him one of the great German prose writers.
1742 – 1799Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)Died 24 February 1799, aged 56German physicist and satirist at the University of Göttingen. He discovered the branching electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures. His notebooks of aphorisms made him one of the great German prose writers.