Émile Amagat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Émile Amagat

French physicist

Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1841

Place of Birth: Saint-Satur, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Date of Death: 15-Feb-1915

Profession: physicist, chemist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Émile Amagat

  • Émile Hilaire Amagat (2 January 1841, Saint-Satur – 15 February 1915) was a French physicist.
  • His doctoral thesis, published in 1872, expanded on the work of Thomas Andrews, and included plots of the isotherms of carbon dioxide at high pressures.
  • Amagat published a paper in 1877 that contradicted the current understanding at the time, concluding that the coefficient of compressibility of fluids decreased with increasing pressure.
  • He continued to publish data on isotherms for a number of different gases between 1879 and 1882, and invented the hydraulic manometer, which was able to withstand up to 3200 atmospheres, as opposed to 400 atmospheres using a glass apparatus.
  • In 1880 he published his Law of Partial Volumes. Amagat was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences on 9 June 1902.
  • A unit of number density, amagat, was named after him.
  • He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society of London in 1897.The French Academy of Sciences gave him the posthumous award of the Prix Jean Reynaud for 1915.

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