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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French officer, engineer, and physicist born 14 June 1736. He spent years studying friction and earth pressure, work that later underpinned soil mechanics. But his lasting mark came from describing the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion—what the world now calls Coulomb's law. It gave physics a way to quantify something invisible but everywhere. He died 23 August 1806. In 1880, the SI unit of electric charge took his name.