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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Born

in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, France

November 06, 1778

Died

May 09, 1850

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Louis_Gay-L...

Genre

Science, Chemistry, Physics

Influences

Alexander von Humboldt, Jacques Charles, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Justus vo ...more

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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (French: [ʒɔzɛf lwi ɡɛlysak]; also Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac; 6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850) was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly 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.

Gay-Lussac was born at Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat in the present-day department of Haute-Vienne.

The father of Joseph Louis Gay, Anthony Gay, son of a doctor, was a lawyer and prosecutor, and worked as a judge in Noblat Bridge. Father of two sons and three daughters, he owned much of the Lussac village and usually added the name of this hamlet of the Haute-Vienne to his name, following a custom of the Ancien Régime. ...more

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	Memoir on the Combination of Gaseous Substances with Each Other it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Annales de chimie et de physique, Tome 41 by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, François Arago 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Observations sur l'oxydation de quelques métaux 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Free Expansion of Gases: Memoirs by Gay-Lussac, Joule, and Joule and Thomson by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Joseph Sweetman Ames, William Thomson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Annales De Chimie Et De Physique by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, François Arago, Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invariants and Equations Associated With the General Linear Differential Equation by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Julius Berend Cohen, François Arago 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Untersuchungen über das Jod 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Annales de Chimie Et de Physique, 1848, Vol. 22 (Classic Reprint) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Annales de Chimie Et de Physique: Table des Tomes I A XXX (Classic Reprint) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Annales de Chimie Et de Physique, 1831: Table Générale Raisonnée des Matières Contenues dans les Trente Premiers Volumes, Suivie d'une Table ... I A XXX (Classic Reprint) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.”
― Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac

tags: chemistry, generality, knowledge, natural-science, naturalism, science

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