Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (born 1736)

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

French physicist (1736–1806)

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French officer, engineer, and physicist. He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb's law, the description of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion. He also did important work on friction, and his…