| LC control no. | n 82000597 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis, 1778-1850 |
| Variant(s) | Gay-Lussac, M. (Joseph Louis), 1778-1850 Lussac, Joseph Louis Gay-, 1778-1850 |
| Birth date | 1778 |
| Death date | 1850 |
| Profession or occupation | Chemists |
| Found in | LCCN 13-33955: His Instruction sur l'essai des matiè€res d'argent par la voie humide, 1832 (hdg.: Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis, 1778-1850; usage: M. Gay-Lussac) Wikipedia [English], viewed June 14, 2019 (Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac; born 6 December 1778; died 9 May 1850; a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen (with Alexander von Humboldt), 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) |
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