D.F.J. Arago, 1786-1853

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Dec 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986jbaa...97...26h&link_type=abstract

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.97, no.1, p.26-29

Physics

Optics

Biography: Arago, D.F.J.

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Arago was a French physicist and astronomer who played a prominent role in French scientific life during the first half of the nineteenth century. He popularised astronomy through a long series of public lectures at the Paris Observatory from 1813, and he became director of the observatory in 1830. This paper is a brief summary of his life and work, concentrating mainly on his contribution to the sciences of astronomy and optics.

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