QUESTION 284

He was a physicist.
He lived in Paris from the age of sixteen.
He attended the Ecole Polytechnic, where he and his fellow students like Gaspard- Gustave Coriolis, Claude- Louis Navier were taught by professors such as Gay Lussac, Ampere and Poisson.
He joined the military. After the defeat of Napoleon, he took leave from the army to write his book.

He died young due to a cholera epidemic. Who is he?