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Categories: Neurological disease deaths in France, 1868 deaths, Articles with short description, Members of the French Academy of Sciences, Foreign Members of the Royal Society
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Foucault  Jean Bernard Leon Foucault  Léon Foucault  Foucault, Jean-Bertrand-Leon  Foucault, Jean-Bertrand-Léon
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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) WordNet 3.0
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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) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of Earth's rotation. Wikipedia
IS A
physicist
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Copley Medal
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
CAUSE OF DEATH
multiple sclerosis
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
France
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Obalky knih.cz
EDUCATED AT
Collège Stanislas de Paris
EMPLOYER
Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
ETHNIC GROUP
French
FAMILY NAME
Foucault
FIELD OF WORK
mechanics
physics
optics
GIVEN NAME
Bernard
Jean
Léon
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
French
MANNER OF DEATH
natural causes
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
Russian Academy of Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
Prussian Academy of Sciences
Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
+1 relations
NOTABLE WORK
Foucault pendulum
OCCUPATION
astronomer
physicist
PLACE OF BIRTH
Paris
PLACE OF BURIAL
Montmartre Cemetery
PLACE OF DEATH
Paris
RESIDENCE
France
SEX OR GENDER
male
WRITING LANGUAGE
French
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Foucault, Jean Bernard Leon Foucault
Wikipedia
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Léon Foucault
Wikidata
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Léon Foucault
Wikipedia Redirections
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Foucault, Jean-Bertrand-Leon, Foucault, Jean-Bertrand-Léon, Foucault, Jean Bernard Leon, Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon, Jaen Bernard Leon Foucault, Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault, Jean-Bernard Foucault, Jean-Bertrand-Leon Foucault, Jean-Bertrand-Léon Foucault, Jean Bernard Foucault, Jean Bernard Leon Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, Jean Bertrand Leon Foucault, Jean Foucault, John Bernard Foucault, Leon Foucault
Wikidata Alias
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Jean Bernard Leon Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, John Bernard Foucault, Leon Foucault

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