Charless-Augustin de Coulomb (1736-1806)
Charless-Augustin de Coulomb (1736-1806) was a French physicist. He is best known for developing Coloumb's law, the definition of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion. The S1 unit of charge, the Coulomb, was named after him. Coulomb's inverse square law, is a lew of physics describing the electrostatic interaction between electrically charged particles.