CHEMIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac has received more than 627,838 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac is the 17th most popular chemist (up from 19th in 2019), the 237th most popular biography from France (up from 258th 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 17 out of 602. Before him are Svante Arrhenius, Fritz Haber, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Wilhelm Ostwald, Otto Hahn, and Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff. After him are Linus Pauling, Edwin McMillan, Friedrich Wöhler, Paul Karrer, William Ramsay, and Emil Fischer.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac ranks 237 out of 6,770. Before him are John II of France (1319), Alfred Sisley (1839), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Charles the Simple (879), Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619), and Joseph Fouché (1759). After him are Jeanne Calment (1875), Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), Richard II of England (1367), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), and Jean-Michel Jarre (1948).

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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), Paul Sabatier (1854), Victor Grignard (1871), Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Black (1728), and Joseph Proust (1754).

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