Gay-Lsac (1778–1850): A view of chemistry, dtry and society post-revolutnary France - ScienceDirect

Contents:

• JOSEPH-LOUIS GAY-LSAC
• JOSEPH LOUIS GAY-LSAC
• GAY-LSACSCIENTIST AND BOURGEOIS
• GAY-LSAC
• LOUIS JOSEPH GAY LSAC: BGRAPHY, NTRIBUTNS, WORKS, PHRAS
• GAY-LSAC, SCIENTIST AND BOURGEOIS
• SCIENTIST OF THE DAY - JOSEPH LOUIS GAY-LSAC
• GAY-LSAC’S LAW OF BG VOLUM
• GAY-LSAC (1778–1850): A VIEW OF CHEMISTRY, DTRY AND SOCIETY POST-REVOLUTNARY FRANCE
• JOSEPH LOUIS GAY-LSAC (1778–1850) AND ANALYTIL CHEMISTRY
• GAY LSAC'S LAW
• JOSEPH LOUIS GAY-LSAC AND HIS WORK ON GAS

JOSEPH-LOUIS GAY-LSAC

Joseph-Louis Gay-Lsac, (born December 6, 1778, Sat-Léonard--Noblat, France—died May 9, 1850, Paris), French chemist and physicist who pneered vtigatns to the behavur of gas, tablished new techniqu for analysis, and ma notable advanc applied chemistry. Gay-Lsac was the elst son of a provcial lawyer and royal official who lost his posn wh the French Revolutn of 1789. Early his schoolg, Gay-Lsac acquired an tert science, and his mathematil abily enabled him to pass the entrance examatn for the newly found Éle Polytechnique, where stunts’ expens were paid by the state.

JOSEPH LOUIS GAY-LSAC

Gay-Lsac proved to be an exemplary stunt durg his studi there om 1797 to 1800. The society’s first volume of memoirs, published 1807, clud ntributns om Gay-Lsac.

At Arcueil, Berthollet was joed by the ement mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace, who engaged Gay-Lsac experiments on pillary orr to study short-range forc.

Charl as “Charl’s law, ” was the first of several regulari the behavur of matter that Gay-Lsac tablished. ” Of the laws Gay-Lsac disvered, he remas bt known for his law of the bg volum of gas (1808). Gay-Lsac’s approach to the study of matter was nsistently volumetric rather than gravimetric, ntrast to that of his English ntemporary John Dalton.

GAY-LSACSCIENTIST AND BOURGEOIS

Another example of Gay-Lsac’s fondns for volumetric rats appeared an 1810 vtigatn to the posn of vegetable substanc performed wh his iend Louis-Jacqu Thenard.

In a followg solo flight, Gay-Lsac reached 7, 016 metr (more than 23, 000 feet), thereby settg a rerd for the hight balloon flight that remaed unbroken for a half-century. In 1805–06, amid the Napoleonic wars, Gay-Lsac embarked upon a European tour wh another Arcueil lleague, the Pssian explorer Alexanr von Humboldt.

Gay-Lsac’s rearch together wh the patronage of Berthollet and the Arcueil group helped him to ga membership the prtig First Class of the Natnal Instute (later the Amy of Scienc) at an early stage his reer (1806). Three years prevly Gay-Lsac had been appoted to the junr post of répétr at the Éle Polytechnique where, 1810, he received a profsorship chemistry that clud a substantial salary.

GAY-LSAC

Gay-Lsac’s appotment to the faculty of the Éle Polytechnique 1804 provid him wh laboratory facili the centre of Paris.

LOUIS JOSEPH GAY LSAC: BGRAPHY, NTRIBUTNS, WORKS, PHRAS

Rivalry between Gay-Lsac and Davy reached a climax over the de experiments Davy rried out durg an extraordary vis to Paris November 1813, at a time when France was at war wh Bra. Gay-Lsac prented a much more plete study of de a long memoir prented to the Natnal Instute on Augt 1, 1814, and subsequently published the Annal chimie.

GAY-LSAC, SCIENTIST AND BOURGEOIS

In 1815 Gay-Lsac experimentally monstrated that pssic acid was simply hydrocyanic acid, a pound of rbon, hydrogen, and nrogen, and he also isolated the pound cyanogen [(CN)2 or C2N2]. Begng 1816, Gay-Lsac served as the jot edor of the Annal chimie et physique, a posn he shared wh his former Arcueil lleague François Arago.

Still, Gay-Lsac did not pe cricism om lleagu for turng away om the path of “pure” science and toward the path of fancial ga. Gay-Lsac was a key figure the velopment of the new science of volumetric analysis. Prevly a few c trials had been rried out to timate the strength of chlore solutns bleachg, but Gay-Lsac troduced a scientific rigour to chemil quantifitn and vised important modifitns to apparat.

SCIENTIST OF THE DAY - JOSEPH LOUIS GAY-LSAC

The prcipl of volumetric analysis uld be tablished only through Gay-Lsac’s theoretil and practil geni but, once tablished, the analysis self uld be rried out by a junr assistant wh brief trag. Gay-Lsac published an entire seri of Instctns on subjects rangg om the timatn of potash (1818) to the nstctn of lightng nductors.

In 1831 Gay-Lsac was elected to the Chamber of Deputi and 1839 received a peerage. In 1848 (the year of revolutns) Gay-Lsac rigned om his var appotments Paris, and he retired to a untry hoe the neighbourhood of his youth that was stocked wh his library and a private laboratory. ” In a logy livered after his ath at the Amy of Scienc, his iend, the physicist Arago, summed up Gay-Lsac’s scientific work as that of “an gen physicist and an outstandg chemist.

GAY-LSAC’S LAW OF BG VOLUM

French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lsac proposed two fundamental laws of gas the early 19th century.

GAY-LSAC (1778–1850): A VIEW OF CHEMISTRY, DTRY AND SOCIETY POST-REVOLUTNARY FRANCE

While one is generally attributed to a fellow untryman, the other is well known as Gay-Lsac’s law.

JOSEPH LOUIS GAY-LSAC (1778–1850) AND ANALYTIL CHEMISTRY

Joseph Louis Gay-Lsac (1778–1850) grew up durg both the French and Chemil Revolutns.

GAY LSAC'S LAW

Gay-Lsac’s own reer as a profsor of physics and chemistry began at the Éle Polytechnique. In 1804 Gay-Lsac ma several darg ascents of over 7, 000 meters above sea level hydrogen-filled balloons—a feat not equaled for another 50 years—that allowed him to vtigate other aspects of gas.

In 1808 Gay-Lsac announced what was probably his sgle greatt achievement: om his own and others’ experiments he duced that gas at nstant temperature and prsure be simple numeril proportns by volume, and the rultg product or products—if gas—also bear a simple proportn by volume to the volum of the reactants. Wh his fellow profsor at the Éle Polytechnique, Louis Jacqu Thénard, Gay-Lsac also participated early electrochemil rearch, vtigatg the elements disvered by s means. Gay-Lsac is bt known for his chemil work but also ma important ntributns to other physil scienc and technology.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lsac (1778–1850) lived through three revolutns France and his life reflected the social transformatns takg place around him. Gay-Lsac may be seen as the first 'profsnal' scientist and ed, throughout the book, Profsor Crosland emphasis that he knew how to e his science to solve practil problems and was able to prof nsirably om this applitn. ContentBgraphyStudiNext jobsMarriageNew disveriPolil reerLast yearsContributns to scienceCharl and Gay-Lsac's LawGay-Lsac's LawBoronChloreLaw of batn volumAlhol nsy meterIndtrial ChemistryPhrasReferencJoseph-Louis Gay-Lsac (1778-1850) was a French physicist and chemist born December 1778.

JOSEPH LOUIS GAY-LSAC AND HIS WORK ON GAS

The first, lled Charl's Law, tablished that a gas expands proportnally to s temperature as long as the prsure is send, lled Gay Lsac's Law, stat that the prsure of a fixed volume of gas is proportnal to s temperature. After this, he began a journey wh Humboldt to vtigate the posn of the earth's air, as well as s magic addn to holdg the chair of Physics at the Sorbonne Universy and also beg a Profsor of Chemistry at the Polytechnic Instute of Paris, Gay-Lsac held some polil posns of some importance.

Although was his laws on gas that have ed Gay-Lsac to go down history, the scientist also veloped other important vtigatns.

Siarly, provid some signifint improvements the field of the chemil Gay-Lsac me to the world the French town of Sat-Léonard- Noblat, on December 6, 1778. Dpe losg some social posn, Gay-Lsac's fay was able to afford a good tn for their children.