Gay-Lussac Joseph Louis (Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac) (06.12.1778 – 1850) – the famous French chemist and physicist, born December 6, 1778 in the town of Saint-Léonard (Saint-Leonard) in the Department of the upper Vien. Father H.-Lussac was a medical student, my grandfather – the Crown Prosecutor. Adolescence H.-Lussac, coincided with the time of the Revolution, took place in extremely straitened circumstances. His father made a list of "suspicious" and imprisoned, died prematurely, and the board., Which brought the young H.-Lussac (a certain Mrs. Sensei, in Possey), came to poverty. At the end of the hostel was one G.-Lussac, for which the family paid a small amount of flour. Accompanying her the teacher in the night to Paris for the sale of milk, GM-Lussac on the way back during the day, lying in the cart, he studied geometry and algebra, and thus pave the way for entry into the Ecole Polytechnique. Extraordinary ability, extraordinary perseverance and strong body to overcome all obstacles, and G. Lussac had passed the entrance exam. As a student of Ecole Polytechnique, H.-Lussac attracted the attention of the famous Berthollet, who had taken his assistant for laboratory work. Although the results of studies H.-Lussac were diametrically opposed assumptions Berthollet, straightforwardness finally disposing of a young researcher in his favor Berthollet: "Young man," said Berthollet, "you are to make discoveries, I want to be your father in science in convinced that this title once make my glory. " Since that time, life-Lussac G. is a continuous movement towards the ultimate glory of a scientist and a higher social status. In 1808, G.-Lussac was a professor. physics at the Sorbonne and in 1809 professor of chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique to 1832, when he accepted a professorship of general chemistry in the Jardin des Plantes. Since 1830, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and with a peer of France in 1839.
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