Augustin-Jean Fresnel and List of inventions named after people

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Difference between Augustin-Jean Fresnel and List of inventions named after people

Augustin-Jean Fresnel vs. List of inventions named after people

Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 178814 July 1827) 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. This is a list of inventions followed by name of the inventor (or whomever else it is named after).

Similarities between Augustin-Jean Fresnel and List of inventions named after people

Augustin-Jean Fresnel and List of inventions named after people have 7 things in common (in Unionpedia): Argand lamp, Benjamin Thompson, Fresnel lens, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Isaac Newton, Léon Foucault, William Hyde Wollaston.

Argand lamp

The Argand lamp, a kind of oil lamp, was invented and patented in 1780 by Aimé Argand.

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Benjamin Thompson

Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, FRS (Reichsgraf von Rumford; March 26, 1753August 21, 1814) was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics.

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Fresnel lens

A Fresnel lens is a type of compact lens originally developed by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel for lighthouses.

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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, (19 September 1778 – 7 May 1868) was a British statesman who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.

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Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

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Léon Foucault

Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation.

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William Hyde Wollaston

William Hyde Wollaston (6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium.

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Augustin-Jean Fresnel and List of inventions named after people Comparison

Augustin-Jean Fresnel has 281 relations, while List of inventions named after people has 537. As they have in common 7, the Jaccard index is 0.86% = 7 / (281 + 537).

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