Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin
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Marc Antoine Auguste Gaudin (1804–1880) was an French
chemist
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He was a pioneer in photography
and contributed to the Avogadro gas theory by proposing that some elements form diatomic or polyatomic gas.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
chemist
Chemist
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
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He was a pioneer in photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
and contributed to the Avogadro gas theory by proposing that some elements form diatomic or polyatomic gas.