Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was an 18th-century French physicist and engineer, best known for his formulation of Coulomb's law, which describes the electrostatic interaction between charged particles. A member of the Augustinian order, Coulomb's work laid crucial foundations for the field of electrostatics and contributed significantly to the development of modern physics, demonstrating the compatibility of scientific inquiry with religious conviction.