Léon Foucault
Physicist, Academic
1819 – 1868
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Who was Léon Foucault?
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, discovered eddy currents, and is credited with naming the gyroscope.
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- Born
- Sep 18, 1819
Paris - Also known as
- Leon Foucault
- Jean Bernard Leon Foucault
- Parents
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- French people
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- Collège Stanislas
- Employment
- Paris Observatory
- Lived in
- France
- Died
- Feb 11, 1868
Paris - Resting place
- Montmartre Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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