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Jacques Charles

1763 - 1823

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Jacques Alexandre César Charles (12 November 1746 – 7 April 1823) was a French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist. Charles wrote almost nothing about mathematics, and most of what has been credited to him was due to mistaking him with another Jacques Charles (sometimes called Charles the Geometer), also a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, entering on 12 May 1785. Charles and the Robert brothers launched the world's first hydrogen-filled gas balloon August 27, 1783; then December 1, 1783, Charles and his co-pilot Nicolas-Louis Robert ascended to a height of about 1,800 feet (550 m) in a piloted gas balloon. Their pioneering use of hydrogen for lift led to this type of gas balloon being named a Charlière (as opposed to the hot-air Montgolfière). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Charles is the 233rd most popular physicist (down from 144th in 2019), the 822nd most popular biography from France (down from 602nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Physicist.

Jacques Charles was a French chemist who is most famous for his discovery of the law of gases, which states that the volume of a gas varies inversely with the pressure.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jacques Charles ranks 233 out of 851. Before him are Alexander Prokhorov, Frederick Reines, Klaus Fuchs, Edme Mariotte, Robert Hofstadter, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. After him are Victor Weisskopf, Tsung-Dao Lee, Leo Esaki, Vitaly Ginzburg, Nikolay Basov, and Arthur Ashkin.

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Among people born in 1763, Jacques Charles ranks 5. Before him are Joséphine de Beauharnais, Charles XIV John of Sweden, Józef Poniatowski, and Jean Paul. After him are Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Claude Chappe, Kobayashi Issa, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Guillaume Brune, and Augustin Robespierre. Among people deceased in 1823, Jacques Charles ranks 7. Before him are Pope Pius VII, Edward Jenner, David Ricardo, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Lazare Carnot, and Giovanni Battista Belzoni. After him are Charles François Dumouriez, André-Jacques Garnerin, Ann Radcliffe, Rafael del Riego, Abraham-Louis Breguet, and Edmund Cartwright.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Charles ranks 822 out of 6,770. Before him are Isabella of Hainault (1170), Joan of France, Duchess of Berry (1464), Maurice Denis (1870), Richard II, Duke of Normandy (963), Edme Mariotte (1620), and Gabriel Tarde (1843). After him are Eugène Sue (1804), Jean-Pierre Léaud (1944), Maria Schneider (1952), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), and Robert Nivelle (1856).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jacques Charles ranks 23. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Paul Langevin (1872), Edmond Becquerel (1820), and Edme Mariotte (1620). After him are Gérard Mourou (1944), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), and Anne L'Huillier (1958).

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