See also:

• JEAN

JEAN 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)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

CHARLES ATHANASE See also:

• JEAN CHARLES ATHANASE PELTIER (1785-1845)

PELTIER (1785-1845)  , See also:

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

French physicist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• HAM

Ham (See also:

• SOMME

Somme) on the 22nd of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1785 . He was originally a watchmaker, but retired from business about the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of See also:

• THIRTY

thirty and devoted himself to experimental and observational See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science . His papers, which arenumerous, are devoted in See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• PART

part to atmospheric See also:

• ELECTRICITY

electricity, waterspouts, cyanometry and polarization of skylight, the temperature of See also:

• WATER

water in the spheroidal See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, and the boiling-point at great elevations . There are also a few devoted to curious points of natural See also:

• HISTORY

history . But his name will always be associated with the thermal effects at junctions in a voltaic See also:

• CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)

circuit . His great experimental See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery, known as the " See also:

• PELTIER, JEAN CHARLES ATHANASE (1785-1845)

Peltier effect," was that if a current pass from an See also:

• EXTERNAL

external source through a circuit of two metals it cools the junction through which it passes in the same direction as the thermo-electric current which would be caused by directly See also:

• HEATING

heating that junction, while it heats the other junction (see THERM0,-ELECTRICITY) . Peltier 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 27th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1845 .