Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac 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, 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…

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Who was born first?

• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was born 1 year before Jöns Jacob Berzelius
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was born 1 year after Louis Jacques Thénard
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was born 1 year after Louis Poinsot
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was born 1 year after Bernard Courtois
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was born 1 year after John George Children

Timeline

1. Bernard CourtoisFebruary 8, 1777 – September 27, 1838
2. John George ChildrenMay 18, 1777 – January 1, 1852
3. Louis Jacques ThénardMay 4, 1777 – June 21, 1857
4. Louis PoinsotJanuary 3, 1777 – December 5, 1859
5. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (this page)December 6, 1778 – May 9, 1850
6. Jöns Jacob BerzeliusAugust 20, 1779 – August 7, 1848

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