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George Wilhelm Richmann

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George Wilhelm Richmann (1711-1753) professor of Natural History at St Petersburg, Russia. Already interested in the electrical nature of thunderstorms, he repeated Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment and was killed by ball-lightning on 6 August 1753. The first person to be killed while conducting an electrical experiment. Engraving from "The Atmosphere" by Camille Flammarion (London, 1873). Scientist Science Physics Electricity Meteorology

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