Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist (born 1785)

Pierre Louis Dulong

French scientist (1785–1838)

Pierre Louis Dulong FRS FRSE was a French physicist and chemist. He is remembered today largely for the law of Dulong and Petit, although he was much-lauded by his contemporaries for his studies into the elasticity of steam, conduction of heat, and specific heats of gases. He…