Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de Lafond, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French physicist
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Place of Birth: Bourges, Centre-Val de Loire, France
About Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de Lafond
- Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de Lafond (1730–1810) was a French obstetrician. While pursuing a medical career as an obstetrician, he was one of the most faithful attendants of the lectures by the abbot Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700–1770), whom he succeeded, in 1760, in the chair of experimental physics at the Collège Louis le Grand in Paris.
- In 1795, he became a professor of physics and chemistry at the École Centrale.
- His treatise Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique (Paris, 1775) is a compendium of the experimental physics of his time.
- He was a student of Jean Antoine Nollet.
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