Alexis Thérèse Petit

Details

Instance of

human

Born

2 October 1791

Died

21 June 1820

Place of birth

Vesoul

Place of death

Paris

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Alexis

Family name

Petit

Field of work

Dulong–Petit law

Occupation

physicist

Citizenship

France

cause of death

tuberculosis

described by source

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library

educated at

École centrale (Révolution française), École polytechnique, Science Faculty of Paris

family

Arago family

languages spoken, written or signed

French

manner of death

natural causes

member of

Société Philomathique de Paris, Academy of Sciences of Turin

name in native language

Alexis Thérèse Petit

notable work

Dulong–Petit law

place of burial

Père Lachaise Cemetery

relative

François Arago

student

Auguste Comte

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