Jean-Charles Peltier

See also: Peltier

Jean-Charles Peltier is a physicist French born with Ham in 1785 and died in Paris in 1845. He discovered in 1834 the calorific effect of the electric current passing through the junction of two different metals, effect which from now on bears its name. He determined in experiments in 1841 the temperature of water in Caléfaction.

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