Coulomb (disambiguation) explained

The coulomb (symbol: C) is a unit of electric charge, named after French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

Coulomb may also refer to:

People

• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806), French physicist and namesake of the term coulomb
  • Coulomb's law, a law of physics first published by Coulomb in 1785
  • List of things named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
• A family of French naval architects
  • François Coulomb the Elder (1654–1717)
  • François Coulomb the Younger (1691–1751)
  • Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb, (1728–1803)
• Adrien Coulomb (born 1990), French professional footballer
• Jean Coulomb (1904–1999), French mathematician, geophysicist and scientific administrator

Places

• Coulomb (crater), a lunar crater named after the French physicist
• Saint-Coulomb, a French commune

Other

• Coulomb (submarine), a Brumaire-class submarine of the French Navy
• COULOMB, a high-energy physics experiment at CERN that ran from 1979 to 1995
• Coulomb Affair, a theosophical conflict in the 1870s
• Coulomb Technologies, former name of electric vehicle infrastructure company ChargePoint
• Coulomb stress transfer, a concept used to study how earthquakes influence hazard on other faults.

See also

• Coulombs (disambiguation)
• Coulombe, a surname
• Colombo (surname)