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Categories: 1868 deaths, Members of the French Academy of Sciences, Neurological disease deaths in France, Articles with Musée d'Orsay identifiers, 1819 births
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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