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  Charles-Augustin de Coulomb  ( / ˈ k uː l ɒ m ,   - l oʊ m ,   k uː ˈ l ɒ m ,   - ˈ l oʊ m / ; [1]   French:  [kulɔ̃] ; 14 June 1736 – 23 August 1806) was a French officer, engineer, and physicist. He is best known as the  eponymous  discoverer of what is now called  Coulomb's law , the description of the  electrostatic force  of attraction and repulsion, though he also did important work on  friction . The  SI unit  of  electric charge , the  coulomb , was named in his honor in 1880. [2] Contents 1 Life 2 Research 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Life [ edit ] Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was born in  Angoulême ,  Angoumois  county,  France , to Henry Coulomb, an inspector of the  royal demesne  originally from  Montpellier , and Catherine Bajet. He was baptised at the parish church of St. André. The family moved to Paris early in his childhood, and he studie...

  Carl Linnaeus  ( / l ɪ ˈ n iː ə s ,   l ɪ ˈ n eɪ ə s / ; [1] [2]  23 May [note 1]  1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his  ennoblement  as  Carl von Linné [3]  ( Swedish pronunciation:  [ˈkɑːɭ fɔn lɪˈneː]   ( listen ) ), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised  binomial nomenclature , the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern  taxonomy ". [4]  Many of his writings were in Latin, and his name is rendered in Latin as  Carolus Linnæus  (after 1761  Carolus a Linné ). Linnaeus was born in  Råshult , the countryside of  Småland , in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at  Uppsala University  and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his  Systema Naturae  in the Netherlands. He...