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Categories: École Polytechnique alumni, Members of the French Academy of Sciences, Foreign Members of the Royal Society, Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Articles with short description
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Fresnel  Augustin Jean Fresnel  Augustin-Jean Fresnel  Augustin Fresnel  Augustine Jean Fresnel
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French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827) WordNet 3.0
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French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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 the 19th century. Wikipedia
French engineer and physicist Wikidata
IS A
physicist
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Rumford Medal
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Grand prix des sciences mathématiques
CAUSE OF DEATH
tuberculosis
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
France
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Obalky knih.cz
EDUCATED AT
Lycée Malherbe
École Polytechnique
École des ponts ParisTech
ETHNIC GROUP
French
FIELD OF WORK
optics
GIVEN NAME
Augustin
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
French
MANNER OF DEATH
natural causes
MEDICAL CONDITION
tuberculosis
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
French Academy of Sciences
Société Philomathique de Paris
OCCUPATION
engineer
civil engineer
physicist
PLACE OF BIRTH
Broglie
PLACE OF BURIAL
Père Lachaise Cemetery
PLACE OF DEATH
Ville-d'Avray
RELATIVE
Léonor Mérimée
RESIDENCE
France
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
Fulgence Fresnel
STUDENT OF
François Arago
WRITING LANGUAGE
French
WordNet 3.0
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Fresnel, Augustin Jean Fresnel
Open English WordNet
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Fresnel, Augustin Jean Fresnel
Wikipedia
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Wikidata
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Wikipedia Redirections
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Augustin Fresnel, Augustin Jean Fresnel, Augustine Jean Fresnel, conical refraction, Fresnel, Jean-Augustin Fresnel, Jean Augustin Fresnel
Wikidata Alias
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Augustin Fresnel, Frenel Ogyusten Jan, Fresnel

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