Charles-Augustin

de Coulomb
 Early life
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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was born in
Angoulême, France, on June 14, 1736.
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His parents were Henri Coulomb (lawyer)
and Catherine Bajet
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He didn’t have any siblings
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The family moved to Paris early in his
childhood to Paris, where he studied
mathematics and attended the Collège des
Quatre-Nations.
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He joined military school in 1759
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He graduated from the Royal Engineering
School of Mézières in 1761.
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Coulomb worked in structural design and
soil mechanics
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In 1764, he served nine years in
Martinique, West Indies, and was in charge
of building Fort Bourbon.
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In 1773, he had a fever so he returned to
France and began some of his most important
work on applied mechanics.
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In 1781, he won the Grand Prix of the
Académie of Sciences for Theorie des
Machines Simples ("Theory of Simple
Machines").
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Between 1785 and 1791, Coulomb wrote seven
crucial papers that dealt with various aspects of
electricity and magnetism. This led him to
formulate the theory known as Coulomb's Law
 Family

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Coulomb's first son was born on 26 February,
1790
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Coulomb's second son was born on July 30,
1797
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In 1802, the he married the mother of his two
sons, Louise Francoise LeProust Desormeaux
 Death
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Coulomb had suffered from chronic ailments.
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He fell ill with a slow fever in the summer of
1796, and died in Paris on August 23, 1806.
 Coulomb's law
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The principle that the force between two point
charges acts in the direction of the line between
them and is directly proportional to the product
of their electric charges divided by the square of
the distance between them.
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