Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon (1819-68)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3626. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Physicist, born in Paris. Became professor at the Paris Observatory and member of the Longitude Institute. Collaborated with FIZEAU in the measurement of the velocity of light using the Fizeau wheel. After they quarrelled, independently of Fizeau he measured the speed of light in water, and found it to be slower than in air, as predicted by the wave theory of light, and against the corpuscular th...

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