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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)

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 many countries.

6 December 1778

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