Religion: not determined yet
Name: Jacques Charles
Other Names: Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles; J.A.C. Charles
Classification:
supporting character
scientist
real/historical person
Publisher(s): 
Earliest Appearance Listed in This Database: The Atom (vol. 1) #27 (Oct.-Nov. 1966): "Stowaway On a Hot-Air Balloon!"
Creators: Gardner F. Fox, Gil Kane, Sid Greene
Number of Appearances: 1
Occupation: inventor, mathematician, scientist
Birth Place: Beaugency, France
Gender: male
Note: inventor of the hydrogen balloon
Among Jacques Charles' better known accomplishments, he is credited as the inventor of the hydrogen balloon. He is also credited with formulating "Charles's law," also known as the law of volumes.
Reed Richards once expressed Charles's law as: "Constant P and n: V over T = k."
The Atom (vol. 1) #27 (Oct.-Nov. 1966): "Stowaway On a Hot-Air Balloon!"Marvel Knights 4 #2 (Apr. 2004): "Wolf at the Door: Part 2" (mentioned)
Suggested links for further research about this character:
- http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Dictionary/Charles/DI16.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Charles
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles's_law
- http://darkmark6.tripod.com/atomind.htm
- https://www.comics.org/issue/20397/
- http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=6263
- http://www.comicvine.com/jac-charles/29-38638/
- http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/AC/aircraft/Balloon-Charles/info/info.htm