Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance ...
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s until the end of... Wikipedia
Born: May 10, 1788, Broglie, France
Died: July 14, 1827 (age 39 years), Ville-d'Avray, France
Parents: Augustine Mérimée and Jacques Fresnel
Education: ENPC (1809) and École Polytechnique
Siblings: Louis Fresnel, Fulgence Fresnel, and Léonor Fresnel
Awards: 1819: Academy Grand Prix; 1824: Légion d'Honneur; 1825: ForMemRS; 1827 for '24: Rumford Medal
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel (May 10, 1788 to July 14, 1827) Fresnel was a French physicist and engineer who put the wave theory of light on a firm mathematical ...
Augustin Jean Fresnel was a French physicist who lived from 1788 to 1827. He studied light and optics. Fresnel's brilliant work led him to work on lighthouses ...