JOSEPH GAY-LUSSAC

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BACKGROUND INFO.

• Gay-Lussacs was born December 6th, 1778 in saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, France.
• Died May 9th, 1850
• Field of science was chemistry
• Oldest out of five children

EARLY YEARS

• Home schooled
• French Revolution
• Sent to boarding school after his father was arrested
• Sent to Paris to prepare for École Polytechnic

EDUCATION

• Got accepted to École Polytechnic in Paris
• Initially studied mathematics and engineering
• Three years later he was transferred to the École des Ponts et Chaussées
• Berthollet, his professor, took Gay-Lussac under his wing as his student

CAREER

• Gay-Lussac began his own research in the winter of 1801.
• First only studied properties of gases, vapor-tensions, hygrometry, capillarity, etc
• French chemist Joseph-Louis helped Gay-Lussac published the "Law of Combining Volumes of Gases."

DISCOVERIES

• Chlorine was discovered in 1808
• Boron was discovered in 1808
• Iodine was discovered in 1811
• Gay-Lussac's gas law was published in 1809

GAY-LUSSAC'S GAS LAW

• P1/T1 =P2/T2
• Gives the relationship between pressure and temperature when volume and amount are held constant.
• If the temperature of a container is increased, the pressure increases.

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WORKS CITED

• Joseph Gay-Lussac. Encyclopedia.com. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Joseph_Louis_Gay-Lussac.aspx
• Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac. Chemistry Explained .http://www.chemistryexplained.com/Fe-Ge/Gay-Lussac-Joseph-Louis.html
• "Charles and gay Lussac's law." NASA. N.p., n.d. Web. 2015. .