Lussac

In 1804 Gay-Lussac made several daring ascents of over 7,000 meters above sea level in hydrogen-filled balloons — a feat not equaled for another 50 years — that allowed him to investigate other aspects of gases.

Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis 2009

But Danish geophysicist Niels Kristian Hoejerslev believes it's the Gay-Lussac theory (formula above) mixed with a splash of Bernoulli that does the trick.

Periscope 2007

The idol of French scepticism had died in the house just opposite, the disciple of Gay – Lussac and Arago, who had held the charlatanism of intellect in contempt.

The Magic Skin 2007

This problem aside, the empirical fact that gases combine in volumes that are in simple ratios to each other became a central component of chemistry, although it should be noted that at the time Gay Lussac proposed his law, only a small number of gases were known to chemists.

Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century Chalmers, Alan 2005

Gay Lussac discovered experimentally that when gases combine chemically they do so in volumes that bear an integral ratio to each other and to the volume of the resulting compound if gaseous, provided that all volumes are estimated at the same temperature and pressure.

Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century Chalmers, Alan 2005

Gay-Lussac did; but then the blood burst from their mouths and ears.

Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

Lussac has never lived anywhere near the Porte de Versailles.

Maigret and the Lazy Burglar Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

What he saw yesterday gave him the impression that Lussac and his two friends are meeting there every evening.

Maigret and the Lazy Burglar Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

And Lussac, with at least two friends, is going regularly to a café at the Porte de Versailles, the Café des Amis.

Maigret and the Lazy Burglar Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

As I told the Prosecutor just now on the telephone, Lussac was friendly with Joseph Raison, the gangster who was killed in the Rue La Fayette, they both lived in the same block of flats at Fontenay-aux-Roses.

Maigret and the Lazy Burglar Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963