Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac

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Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac was a French scientist who made significant balloon voyages in 1804 (20 August and 16 September) with Jean-Baptiste Biot. He found decreasing temperature and variations in humidity. He showed the chemical composition of air at 6,500 meters to be similar to the composition of air at ground level.[1] (In so doing disproving the claims of Robertson, considered by some the first scientific balloonist, that oxygen decreased with altitude.)[2]

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