Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen
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Born
Joseph Louis Gay 6 December 1778 Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, Kingdom of France
Died
9 May 1850 (aged 71) Paris, France
Nationality
French
Known for
Gay-Lussac's law Combustion analysis
Fields
Chemistry
Alma mater
École polytechnique
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France
era
1800+