Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850) was a French chemist and physicist. He is mostly known because he discovered that water is made up of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom oxygen with Alexander von Humboldt. He is also known for two laws related to gases with temperature and for his work on alcohol and water mixtures.

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