Definition of Jean Bernard Leon Foucault

1. Noun. French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air; invented the Foucault pendulum and the gyroscope (1819-1868).

Exact synonyms: Foucault
Generic synonyms: Physicist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jean Bernard Leon Foucault

Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean Anouilh
Jean Antoine Watteau
Jean Arp
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Jean Baptiste Lully
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (current term)
Jean Bernoulli
Jean Caulvin
Jean Cauvin
Jean Chauvin
Jean Cocteau
Jean Edouard Vuillard
Jean Francois Champollion
Jean Francois Millet
Jean Genet
Jean Giraudoux
Jean Harlow
Jean Honore Fragonard
Jean Laffite
Jean Lafitte

Literary usage of Jean Bernard Leon Foucault

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1869)
"... Esq. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, Esq. Alexander Luard Wollaston, MB*. On the Foreign List. Marie Jean Pierre Flourens. Jean Bernard Leon Foucault. ..."

2. Catalogue of the Wheeler Gift of Books: Pamphlets and Periodicals in the by Latimer Clark, Schuyler Skaats Wheeler, Andrew Carnegie, Michael Francis O'Reilly (1909)
"Notice sur les travaux de (Jean Bernard) Leon Foucault. 37 pp. 4to. Paris, 1865 Sketch of the scientific work of Foucault (1819-1868), including his ..."

3. Stars and Telescopes: A Hand-book of Popular Astronomy, Founded on the 9th by David Peck Todd, William Thynne Lynn (1899)
"... 45 Portrait of JAMES BRADLEY 46 Portrait of Jean Bernard Leon Foucault 47 Relative distance and size of Sun, Earth, and Moon .... 49 Portrait of EDMUND ..."

4. Geschichte der Himmelskunde von der ältesten bis auf die neueste Zeit by Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1873)
"Airy hatte den Betrag dieser Störung untersucht, unter Zugrundelegung der angenommenen Massen für beide Welt- * Jean Bernard Leon FOUCAULT, geb. 1819 am 18. ..."

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