Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was an 18th-century French physicist and engineer best known for his pioneering work on electrostatics and the formulation of the inverse-square law of electric force.

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instanceOf French person
human
military engineer
physicist
burialPlace Panthéon, Paris NERFINISHED
Paris NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1736-06-14
dateOfDeath 1806-08-23
educatedAt Collège des Quatre-Nations NERFINISHED
École du Génie de Mézières NERFINISHED
employer Corps of Engineers (France) NERFINISHED
French Army NERFINISHED
era 18th century
Age of Enlightenment NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup French
familyName Coulomb NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork electrostatics
engineering
magnetism
physics
givenName Charles-Augustin NERFINISHED
hasAcademicDiscipline classical electromagnetism
influenced development of electrostatics
later work of André-Marie Ampère
later work of Michael Faraday
knownFor Coulomb's law NERFINISHED
inverse-square law of electrostatic force
theory of magnetism
torsion balance experiments
work on friction
memberOf Académie des Sciences
surface form: French Academy of Sciences
namesakeOf Coulomb (unit of electric charge) NERFINISHED
coulomb NERFINISHED
nativeLanguage French
notableWork Mémoires sur l’électricité et le magnétisme NERFINISHED
Recherches théoriques et expérimentales sur la force de torsion NERFINISHED
Théorie des machines simples NERFINISHED
occupation engineer
military engineer
physicist
placeOfBirth Angoulême NERFINISHED
Kingdom of France NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath First French Empire NERFINISHED
Paris
sexOrGender male
workLocation Brest NERFINISHED
Cherbourg NERFINISHED
Martinique NERFINISHED

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Coulomb's law namedAfter Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Coulomb's law discoveredBy Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
coulomb namedAfter Charles-Augustin de Coulomb