Biography of joseph louis gay-lussac
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Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac
Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac (6 Aralık 1778 – 10 Mayıs 1850), Fransızkimyager ve fizikçidir. Genellikle gaz yasalarıyla ilgili çalışmalarıyla anılır. Bunun dışında, alkol-su karışımlarıyla yaptığı çalışmalarının ardından bir takım alkollü içkilerin alkol oranlarını ölçmüştür.
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[değiştir | kaynağı değiştir]Gay-Lussac, Haute-Vienne'deki Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat'da doğmuştur. Eğitimine orada başlayıp, 1794'te, babasının tutuklanmasının ardından, École Polytechnique'e girmek üzere Paris'e gitmiştir. 1797'de okula kabul edilip, üç sene orada okuduktan sonra, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées'ye geçmiştir. Bir süre sonra Claude Louis Berthollet'nin asistanı olarak atanmıştır. 1802'de Antoine François de Fourcroy'un yardımcılığını yaptı. École Polytechnique'de, 1809 yılında kimya profesörü oldu. 1808'den 1832'ye kadar Sorbonne'da fizik profesörlüğü dem yaptı. Ancak bu görevi, daha sonra Jardin des Plantes'taki kimya kürsüsü için bıraktı. 1831'de doğduğ
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Joseph Gay-Lussac was a French chemist and physicist who did pioneering research into the behavior of gases. He discovered the law of combining gases (Gay-Lussac's law) and the law of gas expansion, often also attributed to Jacques Charles (who discovered it earlier but did not publish his results – see Charles' law). Gay-Lussac prepared (with Louis Jacques Thénard) the elements potassium and boron, investigated fermentation and hydrocyanic (prussic) acid, and invented a hydrometer. He also made two balloon ascents to investigate atmospheric composition and the intensity of the Earth's magnetic field at altitude.
Early years
Gay-Lussac was born at St. Leonard, a small town in the south of France, and at the age of 19 he entered the Polytechnic School in Paris. On leaving in 1801 he started work for the department of Highways and Bridges. His research work started when he was selected by Berthollet to work as his assistant in the government chemical works a
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French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac proposed two fundamental laws of gases in the early 19th century. While one is generally attributed to a fellow countryman, the other is well known as Gay-Lussac’s law. His daring ascents in hydrogen-filled balloons were key to his investigations.
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850) grew up during both the French and Chemical Revolutions. His comfortable existence as the privately tutored son of a well-to-do lawyer was disrupted by political and social upheavals: his tutor fled, and his father was imprisoned.
Joseph, however, benefited from the new order when he was selected to attend the École Polytechnique, an institution of the French Revolution designed to create scientific and technical leadership, especially for the military. There his mentors included Pierre Simon de Laplace and Claude Louis Berthollet, among other scientists converted by Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier to oxygen chemistry. Gay-Lussac’s own career as a professor of physics