Augustin Jean Fresnel
1788-1827
French engineer, mathematician, and physicist. Though trained as a civil engineer, his interest was in physical optics. He studied the nature of light and became convin...
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The French physicist Augustin Jean Fresnel (1788-1827), through his analysis of interference, diffraction, and polarization, turned the wave theory of light into an integral part of exact physical sci...
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At the onset of the nineteenth century, the most widely accepted belief among physicists was that light was a particle that traveled through ether, an invisible substance that made up the heavens. Soo...
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At the onset of the nineteenth century, the most widely accepted belief among physicists was that light was a particle that traveled through ether, an invisible substance that made up the heavens. Soo...
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Augustin Jean Fresnel
Augustin Jean Fresnel
Augustin Jean Fresnel
Augustin Jean Fresnel