Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Also known as Joseph Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac, Louis Gay-Lussac, Louis Gay Lussac, Louis Joseph Gay Lussac, Joseph Louis Gay Lussac, Joseph Louis Gay–Lussac
French chemist and physicist (1778–1850)
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was a French chemist and physicist who lived from 1778 to 1850 and made important discoveries about gases and chemical reactions during the early 19th century. His work helped establish fundamental laws of chemistry and physics that scientists still use today to understand how gases behave and how substances interact with each other.
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- Born
- 1778
- Died
- 1850
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- 53
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- Relation d'un voyage aérostatique fait par M. Gay-Lussac, le 29 fructidor an 12
- The free expansion of gases
- Relation d'un voyage aérostatique
- Recherches physico-chimiques
- Cours de chimie, volume 2
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850) was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen by volume (with Alexander von Humboldt), for two laws related to gases, and for his work on alcohol–water mixtures, which led to the degrees Gay-Lussac used to measure alcoholic beverages in many countries.
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1778 births1850 deaths19th-century French chemists19th-century French physicistsAcademic staff of the University of ParisBoronBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryCorps des pontsDiscoverers of chemical elementsÉcole des Ponts ParisTech alumniÉcole polytechnique alumniFellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences