Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac. Lithograph by Z. Belliard, 1838.

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1838
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3458i
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Chemist and physicist, balloonist in the cause of science. Introduced the term "hydrochloric acid" and formulated a law of combining volumes of gases

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1838

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1 print : lithograph

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/3/19

References note

Jean Laran, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome deuxième, Paris 1937, pp. 137-138, Belliard no. 49 ("49. Célébrités contemporaines..., première suite, chez Delpech (1832 à) 1842: … Gay-Lussac (J. L.), 1838 …")
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1092.3

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Wellcome Collection 3458i

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