| LC control no. | n 85809069 |
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| Personal name heading | Rikhman, Georg Vilʹgelʹm, 1711-1753 |
| Variant(s) | Rikhman, G.-V. (Georg-Vilʹgelʹm), 1711-1753 Richmann, Georg Wilhelm, 1711-1753 |
| Birth date | 1711-07-22 |
| Death date | 1753-08-06 |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists |
| Found in | LCCN 78-411053: T︠S︡verava, G.K. Georg Vilʹgelʹm Rikhman, 1711-1753, 1977 (hdg.: Rikhman, Georg Vilʹgelʹm, 1711-1753) His Trudy po fizike, 1956: t.p. (G.-V. Rikhman) Wikipedia [English], viewed Sept. 23, 2019 (Georg Wilhelm Richmann; born 22 July 1711; died 6 August 1753; a Baltic German physicist; He proved that thunder clouds contain electric charge; In 1741, he was elected a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He did pioneering work on electricity and atmospheric electricity, and also worked on calorimetry, in doing so collaborating with Mikhail Lomonosov) |
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