Hippolyte

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Hippolyte is the given name of Hippolyte Fizeau, a 19th-century French physicist known for pioneering measurements of the speed of light.

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Hippolyte canonical 6

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French physicist
human
physicist
areaOfInfluence France
collaboratedWith Léon Foucault
countryOfCitizenship France
era 19th century
fieldOfWork optics
physics
givenName Hippolyte self-linksurface differs
hasFamilyName Hippolyte Fizeau
surface form: Fizeau
hasGivenName Hippolyte self-linksurface differs
hasNameInLatinAlphabet Hippolyte Fizeau
influenced experimental optics
special relativity
knownFor Fizeau experiment
Fizeau experiment
surface form: Fizeau–Foucault apparatus

early measurement of the speed of light in moving water
measurement of the speed of light
languageOfWorkOrName French
nationality French
nativeLanguage French
notableAchievement first reasonably accurate terrestrial measurement of the speed of light
notableExperiment Fizeau experiment
surface form: Fizeau experiment with moving water

Fizeau experiment
surface form: Fizeau toothed-wheel experiment
occupation physicist
sexOrGender male
studied Doppler effect
interference of light
light

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Hippolyte Fizeau givenName Hippolyte
Hippolyte Carnot givenName Hippolyte
Hippolyte givenName Hippolyte self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Hippolyte Fizeau
Hippolyte hasGivenName Hippolyte self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Hippolyte Fizeau
Armand givenName Hippolyte
subject surface form: Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau
Armand hasGivenName Hippolyte
subject surface form: Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau