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Unpublished paper, 'Notice sur [Joseph Louis] Gay-Lussac' [A notice on Gay-Lussac] by Jean Baptiste Biot

Reference number: AP/32/3

Date: May 1850

Description

Biot provides a biography of Gay-Lussac including details of his work.

Note at end of paper reads 'For the obituary'.

Subject: Biography / Chemistry / Physics

Biot's obituary for Gay-Lussac is mentioned in the Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] in a speech entitled 'At the Anniversary Meeting, November 30, 1850'.

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AP/32/3
Earliest possible date
May 1850
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Ink on paper
Page extent
9 pages
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Manuscript

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Jean Baptiste Biot

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Jean Baptiste Biot, Unpublished paper, 'Notice sur [Joseph Louis] Gay-Lussac' [A notice on Gay-Lussac] by Jean Baptiste Biot, May 1850, AP/32/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_32_3/unpublished-paper-notice-sur-joseph-louis-gay-lussac-a-notice-on-gay-lussac-by-jean-baptiste-biot, accessed on 16 February 2026

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