Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (born 1778)

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

French chemist and physicist (1778–1850)

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…