Person Gay-Lussac; Joseph Louis (1778 - 1850) Gay-Lussac Joseph Louis Joseph Louis Gay- Lussac 1778 - 1850 French Male St Leonard, France 06 December 1778 Paris, France 09 May 1850

Chemistry Physics Education: Ecole Polytechnique, Paris; Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees Career: Began researches on vapour, temperature and terrestrial magnetism; discovered the Law of volumes (1808); Professor of Physics, Sorbonne, Paris (1808-1832); made balloon ascents, including one with J B Biot (FRS 1815) (1804); ascended Vesuvius when it was erupting (1805); Superintendent if the Government manufactory of Gunpowder (1818); represented Haute Vienne in the Chamber of Deputies (1831); Peer of France (1839) Son of Antoine Gay, procureur du Roi, who assumed name of Lussac from a property he held near St Leonard Foreign Member 06/04/1815 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1850 No 76 pp 1013-1023 [in French] References: C W P MacArthur, 'Davy's Differences With Gay-Lussac and Thenard: New Light on Events in Paris and on the Transmission and Translation of Davy's Papers in 1810' in NR 1984-85 vol 39 pp 207-228 B Heap, 'From the dust of the Earth? Things come to life: spontaneous generation revisited by Henry Harris' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 107-108 D Knight, 'Test of time. Gay Lussac: scientist and bourgeois, by M Crosland' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 315-316 Notes: Obituary is in French International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (second edition) rules for double barrelled and compound surnames 6 Dec 1778 - 9 May 1850 NA7195 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes db3b0836-b130-4a76-b986-8bc3bda64108