Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
1778 – 1850 · aged 72
French chemist and physicist (1778–1850)
- Born
- 6 Dec 1778 · Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat
- Died
- 9 May 1850 · Paris
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- 6 Dec 1778BornBorn in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat
- 1809AwardGalvanism Prize
- 1815AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1822RolePresident of the French Academy of Sciences
- 1834RolePresident of the French Academy of Sciences
- 9 May 1850DiedDied in Paris
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- 1789 – 1799French Revolution
- 1812 – 1815War of 1812
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
Biography
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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