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Léon Foucault
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was a French physicist who invented the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of 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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science · French physicist (1819–1868) · physicist · astronomer · also Léon Foucault, John Bernard Foucault, Foucault
Born 18 September 1819 · Died 11 February 1868 · Q187966
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2018· 1 entry
Techno-Science.net: Jean Bernard Léon Foucault - Définition
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2013· 9 entries
Christian Science Monitor: Google doodle celebrates Léon Foucault's pendulum
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The Guardian: French physicist Léon Foucault celebrated in Google doodle
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Gentside: Léon Foucault : comment le pendule du physicien français prouve que la Terre tourne
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BFM Business: Google rend hommage à Léon Foucault
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Christian Science Monitor: How Léon Foucault taught us to watch the world spin
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Europe1: Le pendule de Léon Foucault à l'honneur sur Google
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SiliconRepublic: Léon Foucault’s pendulum illustrated in interactive Google Doodle
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Search Engine Land: Léon Foucault Honored With A Google Logo To Mark His 194th Birthday
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Indiatimes: Google marks Léon Foucault's 194th birthday with a doodle
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2007· 1 entry
Published “Discipline and Punish” in On Violence — cited 2,899 times.
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2002· 1 entry
Le Monde.fr: Léon Foucault, ou l'astronomie par l'invention
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1986· 1 entry
Published “Of Other Spaces” in Diacritics — cited 3,589 times.
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1982· 1 entry
Published “The Subject and Power” in Critical Inquiry — cited 4,680 times.
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1868· 2 entries
Died 1868-02-11.
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“To contribute usefully to the advance of science, one must sometimes not disdain from undertaking simple verifications.”
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1865· 1 entry
Published his papers on a modification of James Watt's centrifugal governor; he had for some time been experimenting with a view to making its period of revolution constant and developing a new apparatus for regulatin
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1864· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1864).
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And member of the mechanical section of the Institute a year later
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1862· 3 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1862).
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Foucault was made a member of the Bureau des Longitudes and an officer of the Legion of Honour
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Determined the speed of light to be 298,000 km/s – 10,000 km/s less than that obtained by previous experimenters and only 0
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1857· 1 entry
Foucault invented the polarizer which bears his name, and in the succeeding year devised a method of testing the mirror of a reflecting telescope to determine its shape
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1855· 2 entries
Won Copley Medal (1855).
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Received the Copley Medal of the Royal Society for his 'very remarkable experimental researches'
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1851· 1 entry
Provided an experimental demonstration of the rotation of the Earth on its axis (diurnal motion)
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1850· 1 entry
Did an experiment using a rotating mirror to measure the speed of light; it was viewed as "driving the last nail in the coffin" of Newton's corpuscular theory of light when it showed that light travels more slowly thr
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1849· 1 entry
Foucault experimentally demonstrated that absorption and emission lines appearing at the same wavelength are both due to the same material, with the difference between the two originating from the temperature of the ligh
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1839· 1 entry
Studied at Paris Medical Faculty (1839).
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1819· 1 entry
Born 1819-09-18.
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