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Also Known As Ewald Georg von Kleist
Born c.1700 • Pomerania? • Prussia?
Died December 11, 1748 • Koszalin? • Poland?
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Helmholtz.
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Georg Simon Ohm; detail of a lithograph.
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Joseph Priestley
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Lomonosov, Mikhail
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Siméon-Denis Poisson, detail of a lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech after a portrait by N. Maurin.
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Gilbert, William
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