Charles Augustin de Coulomb

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He also undertook services for the respective French governments in such varied fields as education and reform of hospitals. In 1787 he made a trip to England to report on the conditions in the hospitals of London. In July 1784 he was appointed to look after the royal fountains and took charge of a large part of the water supply of Paris. On 26 February 1790 Coulomb's first son was born, although he was not married to Louise Françoise LeProust Desormeaux who was the mother of his son.

When the French Revolution began in 1789 Coulomb had been deeply involved with his scientific work. Many institutions were reorganised, not all to Coulomb's liking, and he retired from the Corps du Génie in 1791. At about the same time that the Académie des Sciences was abolished in August 1783, he was removed from his role in charge of the water supply and, in December 1793, the weights and measures committee on which he was serving was also disbanded. Coulomb and  Borda retired to the country to do scientific research in a house he owned near Blois.

The Académie des Sciences was replaced by the Institut de France and Coulomb returned to Paris when he was elected to the Institute in December 1795. On 30 July 1797 his second son was born and, in 1802, he married Louise Françoise LeProust Desormeaux, the mother of his two sons. We mentioned above that Coulomb was involved with services to education. These were largely between 1802 and 1806 when he was inspector general of public instruction and, in that role, he was mainly responsible for setting up the lycées across France.

Let us end with quoting the tribute paid to him by  Biot who wrote:-

It is to  Borda and to Coulomb that one owes the renaissance of true physics in France, not a verbose and hypothetical physics, but that ingenious and exact physics which observes and compares all with rigour.

J J O'Connor and E F Robertson