Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac

Standard Name: Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis

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Friends, Associates Mary Somerville
In Paris the Somervilles met Pierre Simon Laplace , Siméon Poisson , Louis Poinsot , Émile Mathieu , François Arago , Jean-Baptiste Biot , Alexis Bouvard , Georges Cuvier , Alexander von Humboldt , and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac .
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff.
19, 21-4

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1825: Michel-Eugène Chevreul and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac...

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1825

Michel-Eugène Chevreul and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac patented a way of making candles from fatty acid; this improvement on tallow candles was widely celebrated.

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