About Adolphe Ganot
Lived 1804 – 1887 (aged 83). Adolphe Ganot was a French physicist, mathematician and meteorologist.
Adolphe Ganot (born 1804 in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France; died 1887 in Paris ) was a French writer and publisher of physics textbooks. Ganot's textbooks, written during the second half of the nineteenth century, made "...a decisive contribution to physics and its teaching on an international scale". His popular Treatise on Physics (French: Traité de Physique) was translated into several languages.
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Who was Adolphe Ganot?
French author (1804–1887)
When was Adolphe Ganot born?
Adolphe Ganot was born on 2 May 1804 in Rochefort.
When did Adolphe Ganot die?
Adolphe Ganot died on 10 December 1887 in Paris.
What was Adolphe Ganot's occupation?
Adolphe Ganot was a physicist, mathematician and meteorologist.
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Adolphe Ganot was French.
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