Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (June 14, 1736, in Angoulême, France; August 23, 1806, in Paris, France) was a military engineer and physicist.
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
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Coulomb’s family moved to Paris early in his childhood, and he got his education at the Collège Mazarin. His main focus was on philosophy, language, and literature, but he also received a good education in mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, and botany. With respect to his father’s financial setback, he had to leave Paris and moved to Montpellier. Coulomb wrote his first publication in that time and submitted to the Society of Sciences in Montpellier. After his return to Paris, he passed the exams for the École royale du génie de Mézières in 1760. He graduated in 1761 and joined the French army as an engineer in the rank of lieutenant.
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After graduation he served over the next 20 years in the French army. He was sent to various locations and worked as an engineer with the main focus on...
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Altenbach, H. (2019). de Coulomb, Charles-Augustin. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_328-1
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