Joseph Louis Proust
1754-1826
French chemist famous for discovering the law of constant proportions, or Proust's law, according to which pure samples of a compound always contain the same eleme...
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Until he was twenty, Joseph Proust followed dutifully in his father's footsteps, learning chemistry from him and eventually becoming his apprentice in a pharmacy in Angers, France. But in 1774 Proust ...
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Until he was twenty, Joseph Proust followed dutifully in his father's footsteps, learning chemistry from him and eventually becoming his apprentice in a pharmacy in Angers, France. But in 1774 Proust ...
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