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ritratto Coulomb

Charles Augustin Coulomb

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Angouléme 11.July.1736 - Paris 23.August.1806
1784 Coulomb's law
 

Coulomb defined the fundamental law of electrostatics that taken exactly the name  of Coulomb's law, second which the attraction force (or repulsion) between loaded electrical workers  is  proportional them to the product of their values and  inversely proportional they to the square of their distances.

In its honor the name of the unit of measure was dedicated to it of loads electrical worker.