Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin
Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin (5 April 1804 – 2 August 1880) was a French chemist. He was a pioneer in photography and contributed to the Avogadro's gas law by proposing that some elements form diatomic or polyatomic gas.
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Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin
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- Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin
- Born
- 5 April 1804
- Died
- 2 August 1880
- Full name
- Marc Antoine Augustin Gaudin.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- chemist, photographer and mathematician.
- Languages
- French.
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Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin (5 April 1804 – 2 August 1880) was a French chemist. He was a pioneer in photography and contributed to the Avogadro's gas law by proposing that some elements form diatomic or polyatomic gas.
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• Name — Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin • Born — 5 April 1804 • Died — 2 August 1880 • Workplaces — Bureau des Longitudes
Photograph of (from left) Noël Paymal Lerebours, 2 unknown men, Frédéric Martens and Antoine Gaudin. From Le Musée Rétrospectif de la Photographie à l'exposition universelle de 1900, by A. Davanne, Maurice Bucquet, and Leon Vidal. Published by Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1903.
Daguerréotype de Marc-Antoine Gaudin, 1842. Image inversée, diamètre 7,2 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Funérailles du Prince Ferdinand Philippe d'Orléans.
Marc-Antoine Gaudin · Publié dans Le Daguerréotype, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, éditions Musée d'Orsay / 5 Continents, 2008. ISBN:9788874394654.
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Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin was born on 1 January 1804.
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Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin died on 1 January 1880.
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- 1.Family tree of Marc Antoine Gaudin. Geneastar.
- 2.Gaudin, Marc Antoine. Enciclopedia Treccani.
- 3.Marc-Antoine Gaudin. L'architecture du monde des atomes. Gauthier-Villars, Parigi. 1873.
- 4.Theron M. Cole Jr. Early Atomic Speculations of Marc Antoine Gaudin: Avogadro's Hypothesis and the Periodic System. Isis vol. 66 n. 3 - The University of Chicago Press. 1975.
- 5.Seymour H. Mauskopf. The Atomic Structural Theories of Ampère and Gaudin: Molecular Speculation and Avogadro's Hypothesis. Isis. 60. Jahrgang, Nr. 1. 1969.
- 6.Jean-François Luneau. Félix Gaudin, peintre-verrier et mosaïste, 1851-1930. Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal. 2007.
- 7.Laura Di Fede. Visti dagli altri: il patrimonio culturale siciliano fotografato dagli stranieri durante il XIX secolo. Università di Palermo. 2021.
- 8.Enterrement de Mgr le duc d'Orléans auquel j'ai assisté. C'est une grande perte pour la France. Musee d'Orsay. 2026.
- 9.Denis Pellerin. Gaudin frères. Pionniers de la photographie, 1839-1872. Chalons-sur-Saône, Société des amis du musée Nicéphore-Niépce. 1997.
- 10.André Jammes e Eugenia Parry Janis. The Art of French Calotype: With a Critical Dictionary of Photographers, 1845-1870. Princeton University Press. 1982.
- 11.Gaudin Frère. Catalogue général des épreuves stéréoscopiques sur plaque et papier de Alexis Gaudin et frère, fabricants de daguerréotypes. Typog. de Henri Plon. 1856.
- 12.Kirill Kuzmichev. Charles Gaudin. The Third Dimension: History of stereoscopic views. 2018.
- 13.Gaudin, Alexis. Musei Civici del Comune di Trieste.
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Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin is recorded as chemist, photographer and mathematician. Recorded at birth as Marc Antoine Augustin Gaudin.
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