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Biography of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was a French chemist and physicist, born in Saint-Léonard. He was a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences from 1806 and served as its president in 1822 and 1834. Gay-Lussac graduated from the Polytechnic School in Paris in 1800, where he studied under C. Berthollet. He worked as Berthollet's assistant from 1800 to 1802.

In 1805 and 1806, Gay-Lussac embarked on a European journey with the renowned German naturalist A. Humboldt. He became a professor of chemistry at the Polytechnic School and physics at the Sorbonne in 1809. In 1832, he became a professor of chemistry at the Botanical Garden in Paris.

Gay-Lussac's scientific works spanned various areas of chemistry. He independently discovered the law in 1802, which established the quantitative relationship between the expansion of gases and temperature at con John dalton biography!