georg wilhelm richmann

Georg Wilhelm Richmann (Russian: Георг Вильгельм Рихман) (July 22 1711 (old style: July 11 1711) – August 6 1753 (old style: July 26 1753)) was a Russian physicist. He was born in Pernau (today Prnu, Estonia) in what had been Swedish Livonia but became part of Imperial Russia as a result of the Great Northern War. His father died of plague before he was born and his mother remarried. His early studies were in Revel (today Tallinn), but he pursued university studies in Germany in Halle and Jena. His ethnicity is often stated to be German, or sometimes Swedish, but he described himself as Livonian by nature. He became a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1741. He did pioneering work in Russia on electricity and atmospheric electricity, and also worked on calorimetry. He collaborated with Mikhail Lomonosov. He worked as a tutor of the children of Count Andrei Osterman. In 1741 he translated a French translation of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man into German. He was killed in St. Petersburg by ball lightning while attempting a variation of Benjamin Franklin's famous kite-flying lightning experiment. He was apparently the first person in history to die while conducting electrical experiments.

External links

http://www.todayinsci.com/R/Richmann_Georg/RichmannGeorgExp.htm
http://archive.1september.ru/fiz/2003/32/no32_1.htm (in Russian)

Richmann, Georg Wilhelm

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