Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin (5 April 1804 – 2 August 1880) was a French
chemist
A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe t ...
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He was a pioneer in photography and contributed to the
Avogadro's gas law by proposing that some elements form diatomic or polyatomic gas.
See also
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Corundum
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Gaudin Point
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History of molecular theory
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History of the camera
References
1804 births
1880 deaths
19th-century French chemists
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