Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau
1819-1896
French physicist who in 1849 was the first to measure the speed of light on Earth. Fizeau was also the first to use the Doppler principle to measure the speed o...
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In the mid-1800s gentlemen scholars, typified by an abundance of both time and money, often dabbled in science to stave off boredom. While most of these "professional amateurs" produced nothing of wor...
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The French physicist Hippolyte Armand Louis Fizeau (1819-1896) is best remembered as the first to measure the speed of light without any recourse to astronomical observations.Hippolyte Fizeau was born...
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Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau
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