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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born on 1 July 1742 and became the first person in Germany to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics. He discovered the branching electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures. But his real legacy came from notebooks he called Sudelbücher — "waste books" — journals of aphorisms, observations, and satirical jabs that he never intended to publish. They appeared only after his death on 24 February 1799, and turned out to contain some of the sharpest prose in German letters: a physicist's mind turned loose on human absurdity.