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Definition of Augustin Jean Fresnel
1. Noun. French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827).
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Literary usage of Augustin Jean Fresnel
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1. The Story of Nineteenth-century Science by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"So it chanced that when, in 1815, a young French military engineer, named Augustin
Jean Fresnel, returning from the Napoleonic wars, became interested in ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"His early progress AUGUSTIN-JEAN FRESNEL in letters was slow though he showed
while still young an aptitude for physical science. lnh is seventeenth year he ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Augustin Jean Fresnel, development of the undulatory theory, as applied to the
phenomena of polarized light: and various important discoveries in physical ..."
4. Die Geschichte der Physik in Grundzügen mit synchronistischen Tabellen der by Ferdinand Rosenberger (1890)
"3) Augustin Jean Fresnel wurde am 10. Mai zu Broglie in der Normandie geboren
und (1801) auf der ..."
5. A History of Physics in Its Elementary Branches: Including the Evolution of by Florian Cajori (1899)
"Augustin Jean Fresnel (1788-1827) was born at Broglie in Normandy. He advanced
very slowly in his studies, being at eight years of age scarcely able to ..."
6. Inventors at Work: With Chapters on Discovery by George Iles (1906)
"In Fresnel lens. the compound lens devised in 1822 for lighthouses by Augustin
Jean Fresnel, light is as effectively bent by the part of the glass shown ..."
7. An Introduction to the Theory of Optics by Sir Arthur Schuster (1904)
"A more perfect imitation of a lens may thus be obtained. 58. Historical.
Augustin Jean Fresnel was born on May 10th, ..."
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