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Richmann G.W., (1711-1753), physicist


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RICHMANN George Wilhelm (1711-1753, St. Petersburg), physicist. Studied at the Academic University. Scientific assistant from 1740, promoted to a professor in 1741, to assume the functions of the head of the chair of physics and the Physics Chancellery of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1744. He carried out research on thermal physics and electricity. Starting from 1745, he conducted experiments on atmospheric electricity and was eventually killed by a lightening bolt in the course of one of these experiments.

References: Пекарский П. П. История императорской Академии наук в Петербурге. СПб., 1870. Т. 1. С. 697-717.

O. N. Ansberg.

Persons
Richmann Georg Wilhelm

Bibliographies
Пекарский П. П. История императорской Академии наук в Петербурге. СПб., 1870

The subject Index
Academic University
Russian Academy of Sciences