GAY-LUSSAC MUSEUM
Museum dedicated to the work and discoveries of world-renowned physicist and chemist Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac
Housed in the former 17th-century Filles-Notre-Dame convent, this municipal museum is dedicated to the work and discoveries of Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), the world-renowned physicist and chemist from Saint-Léonard, inventor of the alcoholometer and the laws of gas expansion and combination. Objects belonging to him and his theoretical and applied research in the service of government and industry are presented in the context of the times. In one of the rooms, a 19th-century chemist's laboratory has even been reconstructed.
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