Gay-Lussac
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Around that same time, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac concluded that acids are substances that can neutralize bases and that these two classes of substances can be defined only in terms of each other.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Taking full advantage of social networking, she contacted Laplace's influential widow and dined with the physicists François Arago, Jean-Baptiste Biot and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac.
From Nature ● Oct. 21, 2014
Brisson, and Gay-Lussac hurried back to Paris in the hope, which was gratified, that he would be elected to the seat thus vacated in the Academy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
This method was developed by Hofmann in 1868, who replaced the short tube of Gay-Lussac by an ordinary barometer tube, thus effecting the volatilization in a Torricellian vacuum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
Subsequently, he went to Erlangen, where he took his doctorate in 1822; and afterwards, in Paris, was admitted to the laboratory of Gay-Lussac as a private pupil.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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