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Hippolyte Fizeau
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French physicist (1819–1896)
Hippolyte Fizeau was a French physicist who lived from 1819 to 1896 and made important contributions to the study of light and optics. His work helped advance scientific understanding of how light behaves and travels, which laid groundwork for modern physics.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Nanteuil-le-Haudouin
- Occupation
- photographer
- Educated at
- Collège de France
- Languages spoken
- French
- Student of
- François Arago
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau by Eugène Pirou - Original.jpg
- Residence
- Paris
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- writing language
- French
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Commons category
- Hippolyte Fizeau
- date of birth
- 1819-09-23
- date of death
- 1896-09-18
- birth name
- Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau
- name in native language
- Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art
- relative
- Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
- P8168
- Getinia
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Encyclopedic overview
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau ( French: [ipɔlit fizo]; 23 September 1819 – 18 September 1896) was a French physicist who, in 1849, measured the speed of light to within 5% accuracy. In 1851, he measured the speed of light in moving water in an experiment known as the Fizeau experiment.
Biography
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