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See also:CHARLES, JACQUES See also:ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823) , See also:French mathematician and physicist, was See also:born at See also:Beaugency, Loiret, on the 12th of See also:November 1746. After spending some years as a clerk in the See also:ministry of See also:finance, he turned to scientific pursuits, and attracted considerable See also:attention by his skilful and elaborate demonstrations of See also:physical experiments. He was the first, in 1783, to employ See also:hydrogen for the inflation of balloons (see See also:AERONAUTICS), and about 1787 he anticipated See also:Gay Lussac's See also:law of the See also:dilatation of gases with See also:heat, which on that See also:account is sometimes known by his name. In 1785 he was elected to the See also:Academy of Sciences, and subsequently he became See also:professor of physics at the See also:Conservatoire See also:des Arts et Metiers. He died in See also:Paris on the 7th of See also:April 1823. His published papers are chiefly concerned with mathematical topics.
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