Adolphe Ganot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adolphe Ganot

French author

Date of Birth: 02-May-1804

Place of Birth: Rochefort, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 10-Dec-1887

Profession: physicist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Adolphe Ganot (born 1804 in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France; died 1887 in Paris) was a French author and publisher of physics textbooks. Ganot's textbooks, written during the second half of the nineteenth century, made "...a decisive contribution to physics and its teaching on an international scale".
His popular Treatise on Physics (French: Traité de Physique) was translated into several languages.