Joseph Louis Gay Lussac's tomb can be found in the Division 26 of the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. He died on May 9,1850. In a eulogy delivered after his death at the Academy of Sciences, his friend, the physicist Arago, summed up Gay-Lussac’s scientific work as that of “an ingenious physicist and an outstanding chemist.”1
The French inscription on his tombstone reads as follows: " JOSEPH LOUIS GAY LUSSAC MEMBRE DE / L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES ET DE TOUTES / LES SOCIETES SAVANTES D'EUROPE GRAND / OFFICIER DE LA LEGION D'HONNEUR ANCIEN / PAIR DE FRANCE NE A ST. LEONARD [HT. VIENNE] / LE 6 DE 1778 MORT A PARIS
LE 9 MAI 1850".
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Bibliography
- Edmond Blanc et Léon Delhoume, La vie émouvante et noble de Gay-Lussac, Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1950, pp. 278