Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac

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Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac

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Birthplace: Limousin, Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, Haute-Vienne, Aquitaine Limousin Poitou-Charentes, France
Death: May 09, 1850 (71)
Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Immediate Family:

Son of Antoine Gay and Léonarde Bouriquet
Husband of Geneviève Gay
Father of Jules Alexandre Gay-Lussac; Louis Gay-Lussac; Gabriel Joseph Gay-Lussac; Joséphine Eléonore Gay-Lussac and Virginie Antonie Henriette Gay-Lussac
Brother of Françoise Gay; Marguerite Gay; Léonarde Gay; Pierre François Gay and Marie Léonarde Gay

Occupation: Professeur à l'Ecole Polytechnique
Managed by: George J. Homs
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About Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (/ˌɡeɪləˈsæk/; French: [%CA%92%C9%94z%C9%9Bf lwi ɡɛlysak]; also Louis Joseph 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 (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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Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac's Timeline

1778
December 6, 1778
Limousin, Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, Haute-Vienne, Aquitaine Limousin Poitou-Charentes, France
1810
June 18, 1810
Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
1810
1813
9, 1813
Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
1819
December 10, 1819
1850
May 9, 1850
Age 71
Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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