Augustin-Jean Fresnel
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 196 years ago |
| Date of birth | May 10,1788 |
| Zodiac sign | Taurus |
| Born | Broglie |
| France | |
| Date of died | July 14,1827 |
| Died | Ville-d'Avray |
| France | |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields | Physics |
| Engineering | |
| Job | Physicist |
| Civil engineer | |
| Education | École Polytechnique |
| École des Ponts | |
| École des ponts ParisTech | |
| Awards | Légion d'Honneur |
| Rumford Medal | |
| Rest place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
| Siblings | Fulgence Fresnel |
| Louis Fresnel | |
| Léonor Fresnel | |
| Parents | Augustine Mérimée |
| Jacques Fresnel | |
| Influence | Christiaan Huygens |
| Thomas Young | |
| François Arago | |
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| ID | 2578568 |
Augustin-Jean Fresnel Life story
Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s until the end of the 19th century.
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