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    Alexis Thérèse Petit (French: [pəti]; 2 October 1791, Vesoul, Haute-Saône – 21 June 1820, Paris) was a French physicist. Petit is known for his work on...
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    The Dulong–Petit law, a thermodynamic law proposed by French physicists Pierre Louis Dulong and Alexis Thérèse Petit, states that the classical expression...
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    petite means small in French. But it was actually named in honor of Alexis Thérèse Petit, a French physicist. The crater lies to the south of the crater Townley...
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  • triangle), see Petit's hernia A French or Catalan surname: Adriana Petit (born 1984), Spanish multidisciplinary artist Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791–1820),...
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  • due to its lattice vibrations. Named for Pierre Louis Dulong and Alexis Thérèse Petit. Dunbar's number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of...
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    his pupil, James Joule 1819 – Pierre Louis Dulong and Alexis Thérèse Petit give the Dulong-Petit law for the specific heat capacity of a crystal 1820 –...
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  • global climate analysis. 1819 – Pierre Louis Dulong and Alexis Thérèse Petit give the Dulong-Petit law for the specific heat capacity of a crystal. 1820...
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    century. In 1819, the French physicists Pierre Louis Dulong and Alexis Thérèse Petit discovered that the specific heat capacities of solid elements at...
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    Therese of Lisieux OCD (French: Thérèse de Lisieux [teʁɛz də lizjø]; born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin; 2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), also known...
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  • philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician (born 1757) 21 June – Alexis Thérèse Petit, physicist (born 1791) 14 September – François Joseph Lefebvre, Marshal...
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