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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

1778 - 1850

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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (UK: gay-LOO-sak, US: GAY-lə-SAK; French: [ʒozɛf lwi ɡɛlysak]; 6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850) was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen by volume (with Alexander von Humboldt), for two laws related to gases, and for his work on alcohol–water mixtures, which led to the degrees Gay-Lussac used to measure alcoholic beverages in many countries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac is the 9th most popular chemist (up from 17th in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from France (up from 237th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Chemist.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac is most famous for his law of combining volumes, which states that when gases combine, the volume of the resulting gas is the sum of the volumes of the individual gases.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac ranks 9 out of 602. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Irène Joliot-Curie, and Amedeo Avogadro. After him are Robert Boyle, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Emil Fischer, Svante Arrhenius, John Stith Pemberton, and Edwin McMillan.

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Among people born in 1778, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac ranks 1. After him are Marie Thérèse of France, Louis Bonaparte, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, Humphry Davy, José de San Martín, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Bernardo O'Higgins, and Clemens Brentano. Among people deceased in 1850, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac ranks 3. Before him are Honoré de Balzac, and Louis Philippe I. After him are José de San Martín, Zachary Taylor, William Wordsworth, Báb, Daoguang Emperor, Marie Tussaud, Louise of Orléans, Frédéric Bastiat, and Lin Zexu.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac ranks 118 out of 6,770. Before him are Sarah Bernhardt (1844), Marquis de Sade (1740), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Pope Innocent VI (1282), Anatole France (1844), and François Mitterrand (1916). After him are André Gide (1869), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Philippe Pétain (1856), Catherine of Valois (1401), Joseph Fourier (1768), and Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac ranks 4. Before him are Louis Pasteur (1822), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), and Irène Joliot-Curie (1897). After him are Henri Moissan (1852), Alfred Werner (1866), Victor Grignard (1871), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Paul Sabatier (1854), Joseph Black (1728), and Jacques Monod (1910).

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