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Émile Amagat

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For his studies, he developed many original piezometer devices. His originality went so far as to use the depth of a mine shaft being drilled to reach high pressures of 430 atmospheres in order to study the equations of state of certain gases. His expertise led him to collaborate with the physicist Peter Tait in the development of a piezometer suitable for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Amagat was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences on 9 June 1902. A unit of number density, amagat, was named after him. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society of London in 1897.

The French Academy of Sciences gave him the posthumous award of the Prix Jean Reynaud for 1915.

In film

  • In 2016 Polish film Marie Curie, Amagat was played by Daniel Olbrychski.

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