fresnel

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noun French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827)

For Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist.

Your Galileos, Galvanis, Fresnels, Purkinjes, and Darwins are always getting confounded and troubled by insignificant things. — The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, William James
There were also General Klenau (Baron de Giulay), who had acquired considerable military reputation in the preceding wars, and General Fresnel, who stood in a more critical situation than his companions in misfortune, for he was a Frenchman, and an emigrant. — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

Augustin Jean Fresnel

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