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  1. Joseph Louis Proust (26 September 1754 – 5 July 1826) was a French chemist. He was best known for his discovery of the law of definite proportions in 1794, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions.

  2. Jul 1, 2024 · Joseph-Louis Proust was a French chemist who proved that the relative quantities of any given pure chemical compound’s constituent elements remain invariant, regardless of the compound’s source. This is known as Proust’s law, or the law of definite proportions (1793), and it is the fundamental.

  3. Jun 11, 2018 · PROUST, JOSEPH LOUIS (b.. Angers, France, 26 September 1754; d. Angers, 5 July 1826) chemistry. The second son of Joseph Proust, an apothecary, and Rosalie Sartre, Proust received his early education under the supervision of his godparents and continued it at the local Oratorian collège. He was then apprenticed to his father, to study pharmacy ...

  4. Jul 4, 2024 · Joseph Louis Proust. (1754—1826) French analytical chemist. Quick Reference. (1754–1826) French chemist. Proust was born the son of an apothecary at Angers in northwest France. He studied in Paris and became chief apothecary at the Saltpêtrière Hospital.

  5. In chemistry, the law of definite proportions, sometimes called Proust's law or the law of constant composition, states that a given chemical compound always contains its component elements in fixed ratio (by mass) and does not depend on its source and method of preparation.

  6. Joseph Louis Proust. 1754-1826. French chemist famous for discovering the law of constant proportions, or Proust's law, according to which pure samples of a compound always contain the same elements in definite proportions.