Jules Antoine Lissajous
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1822 – 1880
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Who was Jules Antoine Lissajous?
Jules Antoine Lissajous was a French mathematician, after whom Lissajous figures are named. Among other innovations, Lissajous invented the Lissajous apparatus, a device that creates the figures that bear his name. In it, a beam of light is bounced off a mirror attached to a vibrating tuning fork, and then reflected off a second mirror attached to a perpendicularly oriented vibrating tuning fork, onto a wall, resulting in a Lissajous figure. This led to the invention of other apparatus such as the harmonograph.
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- Born
- Mar 4, 1822
Versailles - Also known as
- 朱尔·利萨茹
- Лиссажу, Жюль Антуан
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- École Normale Supérieure
- Died
- Jun 24, 1880
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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