biography
| name: |
Peltier, Jean Charles Athanase
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pronunciation:
[peltyay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1785–1845)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Ham, N France. Originally a clockmaker, he retired at 30 to devote himself to scientific matters, and discovered the thermoelectric reduction of temperature now known as the Peltier effect, later used by Heinrich Lenz as a method of freezing water. |
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