JEAN FOUCAULT

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JEAN FOUCAULT

• a brief biographical sketch by
• Carl J. Wenning

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Jean Foucault

• French physicist
• Born Paris, September 18, 1819
• Died Paris, February 11, 1868

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Most notable accomplishments

• With Fizau, one of the first to accurately
  measure the speed of light.
• Showed light slows in medium nc/v
• Foucault pendulum.
• Foucault gyroscope.