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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
French chemist and physicist (1778–1850)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 6 December 1778
- Died
- 9 May 1850
- Place of birth
- Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat
- Place of death
- Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Gay-Lussac
- Occupation
- physicist, chemist, politician, engineer, university teacher, board member
- Position held
- member of the French National Assembly, member of the Chamber of Peers, president of the French Academy of Sciences, president of the French Academy of Sciences
- Citizenship
- France
- Awards
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Galvanism Prize, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Pour le Mérite, 72 names on the Eiffel Tower, Knight of the Order of the Polar Star
- academic degree
- professor
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), BEIC Digital Library, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Claude Louis Berthollet
- member of
- Royal Society, Société Philomathique de Paris, Academy of Science for Public Utility, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academy of Sciences of Turin
- name in kana
- ゲーリュサック
- notable work
- Charles's law, Gay-Lussac's law
- number of children
- 5
- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery, Grave of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
- relative
- Simon François Gay de Vernon
- student
- Jules Pelouze
- student of
- Claude Louis Berthollet
- topic's main category
- Category:Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
- work location
- Paris
- writing language
- English
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