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)