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- Born
- 1785
- Died
- 1838
- Works
- 1
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- Recherches sur les pouvoirs réfringents des fluides élastiques
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- Born
- ( 1785-02-12 ) 12 February 1785, Rouen , France
- Died
- 19 July 1838 (1838-07-19) (aged 53), Paris, France
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Pierre Louis Dulong FRS FRSE (/duːˈlɒŋ, -ˈloʊŋ/; French: [dylɔ̃]; 12 February 1785 – 19 July 1838) was a French physicist and chemist. He is remembered today largely for the law of Dulong and Petit, although he was much-lauded by his contemporaries for his studies into the elasticity of steam, conduction of heat, and specific heats of gases. He worked most extensively on the specific heat capacity and the expansion and refractive indices of gases. His collaboration with Alexis Thérèse Petit led to the discovery of the Dulong–Petit law on heat capacity.
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1785 births1838 deaths19th-century French chemists19th-century French physicistsBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryÉcole polytechnique alumniForeign members of the Royal SocietyFrench fellows of the Royal SocietyLycée Pierre-Corneille alumniMembers of the French Academy of SciencesMembers of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesScientists from Rouen