# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/georges-louis-le-sage
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:25:52.268Z

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name: "Georges-Louis Le Sage"
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description: "Georges-Louis Le Sage was a Genevan physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases. He was a contributor to Diderot's Encyclopédie."
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birthDate: "1724-06-13"
deathDate: "1803-11-20"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump