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Article: Le Roy, Charles
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- Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Le Roy, Charles
(
b
. Paris, France, 12 January 1726;
d
. Paris, 10 December 1779),
physics, meteorology, medicine.
Le Roy was a member of a distinguished family. His father, Julien, was a celebrated horologist. One of his older brothers, Jean-Baptiste, was an eminent physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, and his younger brother, Julien-David, was a noted architect and historian of architecture. Charles received his medical education at the University of Montpellier. After traveling extensively in Italy, he returned to Montpellier as a member of the Faculty of Medicine.
Le Roy was a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Montpellier and a corresponding member of the ...