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    Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau FRS FRSE MIF[clarification needed] (French pronunciation: [aʁmɑ̃ ipɔlit lwi fizo]; 23 September 1819 – 18 September 1896)...
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  • In 1848−49, Hippolyte Fizeau used a toothed wheel apparatus to perform an absolute measurement of the speed of light in air. Subsequent experiments performed...
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    interference fringes. The term Fizeau interferometer also refers to an interferometric arrangement used by Hippolyte Fizeau in a famous 1851 experiment that...
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    The Fizeau experiment was carried out by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1851 to measure the relative speeds of light in moving water. Fizeau used a special interferometer...
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  • using a rotating mirror Hippolyte Fizeau Léon Foucault This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fizeau–Foucault apparatus. If...
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  • than the emitted frequency when the sound source receded from him. Hippolyte Fizeau discovered independently the same phenomenon on electromagnetic waves...
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    proposed by Albert A. Michelson in 1890, following a suggestion by Hippolyte Fizeau. The first such interferometer built was at the Mount Wilson observatory...
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  • French instrument maker Hippolyte Lucas (1814–1899), French entomologist Hippolyte Fizeau (1819–1896), French physicist Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French...
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    the working principle behind experiments by Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault. The setup as used by Fizeau consists of a beam of light directed at a mirror...
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    optical shutters. A rotating disc chopper was famously used in 1849 by Hippolyte Fizeau in the first non-astronomical measurement of the speed of light. Optical...
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    of light, and the dragging of light in moving water observed in the 1851 Fizeau experiment. The notation employs u as velocity of a body within a Lorentz...
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    Fizeau is a prominent lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, in the southern hemisphere. Nearby craters of note include Minkowski...
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    of light in air relative to water, and it was used again in 1851 by Hippolyte Fizeau to measure the effect of Fresnel drag on the speed of light in moving...
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    physicist SW01 GAY-LUSSAC Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac chemist SW02 FIZEAU Hippolyte Fizeau physicist SW03 SCHNEIDER Eugène Schneider industrialist SW04 LE...
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    measurement of the speed of light was performed in Europe by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1849. Fizeau directed a beam of light at a mirror several kilometers away...
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    needed] The first Doppler redshift was described by French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau in 1848, who pointed to the shift in spectral lines seen in stars as...
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    speed of light, which had recently been measured at 3.14×108 m/s by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1848 and at 2.98×108 m/s by Léon Foucault in 1850. However, Weber...
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    obtaining a value that was close to the speed of light as measured by Hippolyte Fizeau, Maxwell concluded that light consists in undulations of the same medium...
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  • troubadour Hippolyte-Louis-Alexandre Dechet (1801–1830), French actor Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau (1819–1896), French physicist Hippolyte-Louis Guérin...
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    Doppler birthplace". www.visit-salzburg.net. Lequeux, James (2020). Hippolyte Fizeau : physicist of the light. Les Ulis. p. 32. ISBN 978-2-7598-2188-4....
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    Ireland, Johann Philipp Wagner (1839), and Christian Ernst Neeff (1847). Hippolyte Fizeau (1853) introduced the use of the quenching capacitor. Heinrich Ruhmkorff...
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    various solutions. Astronomical interferometry, first conceived by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1868, was the seminal concept that has enabled major improvements...
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    contradictory results. For example, the Fizeau experiment of 1851, conducted by French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau, demonstrated that the speed of light...
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  • first states the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics. Hippolyte Fizeau and E. Gounelle measure the speed of electricity. Léon Foucault demonstrates...
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  • 25 – Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar (b. 1857) September 18 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819) September 22 – Pavlos Kalligas, Greek jurist...
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  • (1923–2015) Nobel laureate George Francis FitzGerald – Ireland (1851–1901) Hippolyte Fizeau – France (1819–1896) Georgy Flyorov – Rostov-on-Don (1913–1990) Vladimir...
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    obtained daguerreotype stereograms from Mr. Beard in 1841 and from Hippolyte Fizeau and Antoine Claudet in 1842. None of these have yet been located. David...
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    violate causality or any other relativistic phenomenon). In 1850, Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault independently established that light travels more...
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  • Dion Boucicault, Irish-American actor and playwright (b. 1820) 1896 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (b. 1819) 1905 – George MacDonald, Scottish...
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  • William Holmes McGuffey, American author and academic (d. 1873) 1819 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (d. 1896) 1823 – John Colton, English-Australian...
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