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| | JOSEPH LOUIS GAY-LUSSAC |
 | | Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, by virtue of his skill and diligence as an experimentalist, and by his demonstration of the power of the scientific method, deserves recognition as a great scientist. |
 | | His father, Antoine Gay, was a lawyer who, to distinguish himself from other people in the Limoges region with the last name of Gay, used the surname Gay-Lussac from the name of some family property near St Leonard(4) |
 | | Born on December 6, 1778, Joseph was the eldest of five children. |
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