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GAY-LUSSAC MUSEUM

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Rue Jean-Giraudoux, 87400Saint-Léonard-De-Noblat, France
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2024
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2024

Museum dedicated to the work and discoveries of Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, world-renowned physicist and chemist

This municipal museum (organized by an association) is housed in the old convent of the Daughters-Notre-Dame built in the th century. It is devoted to the work and discoveries of Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) world renowned physicist, native of Saint-Léonard, inventor, notably alcoholmeter and laws on the expansion and combination of gases. He undertook a 4 000 m balloon ascent to check the decrease in the intensity of the earth's magnetic couple, as one rises into the atmosphere. Objects (clothes, laboratory instruments, books…) that have belonged to him and his theoretical and applied research at the service of the state and industry are presented in the context of the time. In one of the rooms a laboratory of chemist from the th century was even reconstituted.


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