JACQUES See also:

• ALEXANDRE, NOEL (NATALIS ALEXANDER) (1639-1724)

ALEXANDRE CESAR See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR CHARLES (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

CHARLES (1746-1823)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French mathematician and physicist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BEAUGENCY

Beaugency, Loiret, on the 12th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1746 . After spending some years as a clerk in the See also:

• MINISTRY

ministry of See also:

• FINANCE

finance, he turned to scientific pursuits, and attracted considerable See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention by his skilful and elaborate demonstrations of See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical experiments . He was the first, in 1783, to employ See also:

• HYDROGEN [symbol H, atomic weight x-oo8 (0=16)]

hydrogen for the inflation of balloons (see See also:

• AERONAUTICS

AERONAUTICS), and about 1787 he anticipated See also:

• GAY, JOHN (1685-1732)
• GAY, MARIE FRANCOISE SOPHIE (1776-1852)
• GAY, WALTER (1856– )

Gay Lussac's See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law of the See also:

• DILATATION (from Lat. dis-, distributive, and lotus, wide)

dilatation of gases with See also:

• HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat, which on that See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account is sometimes known by his name . In 1785 he was elected to the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Sciences, and subsequently he became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of physics at the See also:

• CONSERVATOIRE (the Fr. equivalent of Ital. Conservatorio, Ger. Conservatorium, from Med. Lat. conservatorium, a place where anything is preserved, Lat. conservare, to preserve)

Conservatoire See also:

• DES

des Arts et Metiers . He died in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 7th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1823 . His published papers are chiefly concerned with mathematical topics .