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[] Name: Charles Augustin Coulomb Date of birth and death: 1736-1806 Country of origin: France Date of discovery: 1780s, Coulomb's law

For over twenty years Coulomb was posted to locations where he was involved in all types of fields of engineering. Coulomb returned to France and began to write important works on applied mechanics and he presented his first work to the Académie des Sciences in Paris in 1773. In 1779 Coulomb was sent to construct a fort made entirely from wood near. He was elected to the Institut de France in 1795. In 1801, he married Louise Françoise LeProust Desormeaux, the mother of his two sons. Between 1802 and 1806, Coulomb was inspector general of public instruction and was mainly responsible for education across France.

His studies into friction led to Coulomb's major work on friction which won him the Grand Prix from the Academie des Sciences in 1781. He wrote seven important treatises on electricity and magnetism which he submitted to the Académie des Sciences between 1785 and 1791, one of which stated Coulomb's law. []