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Pierre-Louis Dulong: Quick Facts

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Born February 12, 1785 • Rouen • France
Died July 18, 1838 (aged 53) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Dulong-Petit law

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Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Henri-Victor Regnault
Henri-Victor Regnault
French chemist and physicist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Joseph Black, detail of an engraving by J. Rogers after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn
Joseph Black
British scientist
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
Jan Baptista van Helmont
Belgian scientist
J. Willard Gibbs
J. Willard Gibbs
American scientist
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Peter Armbruster
German physicist
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Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
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Richard E. Smalley
American chemist and physicist
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Walter Kohn
American physicist
Francis William Aston.
Francis William Aston
British physicist
Edwin Mattison McMillan.
Edwin Mattison McMillan
American physicist
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Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff
American chemist
William Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist

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