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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

Died on August 23, 1806

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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ( KOO-lom, -⁠lohm, koo-LOM, -⁠LOHM; French:; 14 June 1736 – 23 August 1806) was a French officer, engineer, and physicist. He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb's law, the description of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion.

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