Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin

Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin (5 April 1804 – 2 August 1880) was a French chemist.

Not to be confused with Antoine Marc Gaudin.
Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin
Born(1804-04-05)5 April 1804
Died2 August 1880(1880-08-02) (aged 76)
NationalityFrench
Scientific career
InstitutionsBureau des Longitudes

He was a pioneer in photography and contributed to the Avogadro's gas law by proposing that some elements form diatomic or polyatomic gas.[1]

See also

References
  1. Mauskopf, Seymour H. (1969). "The Atomic Structural Theories of Ampère and Gaudin: Molecular Speculation and Avogadro's Hypothesis". Isis. 60 (1): 61–74. doi:10.1086/350449. ISSN 0021-1753. JSTOR 229022. S2CID 143759556.


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