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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

1778–1850 · France · Born in the 1700s

Discovered the law of combining volumes of gases, helped isolate boron and improved volumetric analysis.

Fields

General chemistry Analytical chemistry

Related topics

Ideal and real gases

How pressure, volume, temperature and amount of gas are linked, and why real gases depart from the ideal law.

Chemists in the same field

Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779)Amedeo Avogadro (1776)John Dalton (1766)Justus von Liebig (1803)Robert Bunsen (1811)Antoine Lavoisier (1743)