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JACQUES

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ALEXANDRE CESAR
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CHARLES (1746-1823)  ,
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French mathematician and physicist, was
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born at
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Beaugency, Loiret, on the 12th of
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November 1746 . After spending some years as a clerk in the
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ministry of
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finance, he turned to scientific pursuits, and attracted considerable
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attention by his skilful and elaborate demonstrations of
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physical experiments . He was the first, in 1783, to employ
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hydrogen for the inflation of balloons (see
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AERONAUTICS), and about 1787 he anticipated
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Gay Lussac's
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law of the
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dilatation of gases with
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heat, which on that
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account is sometimes known by his name . In 1785 he was elected to the
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Academy of Sciences, and subsequently he became
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professor of physics at the
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Conservatoire
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des Arts et Metiers . He died in
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Paris on the 7th of
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April 1823 . His published papers are chiefly concerned with mathematical topics .

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