French inventor, scientist and mathematician (1746–1823)
Jacques Charles
Portrait by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, c. 1798
Born
12 November 1746 (1746-11-12)
Beaugency, France
Died
7 April 1823 (1823-04-08) (aged 76)
Paris, France
Nationality
French
Known for
Charles's law
Scientific career
Fields
Physics mathematics hot air ballooning
Institutions
Académie des Sciences
Jacques Alexandre César Charles (12 November 1746 – 7 April 1823) was a French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist.
Charles wrote almost nothing about mathematics, and most of what has been credited to him was due to mistaking him with another Jacques Charles, also a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, entering on 12 May 1785. He was sometimes called Charles the Geometer.[1]
Charles and the Robert brothers launched the world's first hydrogen-filled gas balloon August 27, 1783; then December 1, 1783, Charles and his co-pilot Nicolas-Louis Robert ascended to a height of about 1,800 feet (550 m) in a piloted gas balloon. Their pioneering use of hydrogen for lift led to this type of gas balloon being named a Charlière (as opposed to the hot-air Montgolfière).
Charles's law, describing how gases tend to expand when heated, was formulated by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in 1802, but he credited it to unpublished work by Charles.[2]
Charles was elected to the Académie des Sciences in 1795 and subsequently became professor of physics at the Académie de Sciences.[3]
^J. B. Gough, Charles the Obscure, Isis 70, #254, pgs 576–579.
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