Jean Bernard Léon Foucault
1819-1868
French physicist who demonstrated the earth's rotation using a pendulum. Foucault made important discoveries in many areas, including the understanding...
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The French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819-1868) is remembered for the Foucault pendulum, by which he demonstrated the diurnal rotation of the earth, and for the first accurate deter...
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Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault, born in Paris on September 19, 1819, was an extremely successful experimental physicist. He, like Galileo, believed experimentation and innovation were the best ways...
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Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault performed two of the most important experiments in nineteenth-century physics: the accurate determination of the velocity of light on Earth and the demonstration of E...
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Léon Foucault was born in Paris on September 19, 1819. Due to his poor health, he was privately educated at home. He chose medicine as his vocation and practiced as a physician, but he soon lef...
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