Armand

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

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Label Occurrences
Armand canonical 3

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf French physicist
human
physicist
birthCountry France
birthDate 1819-09-23
birthPlace Paris
centuryOfActivity 19th century
countryOfCitizenship France
deathCountry France
deathDate 1896-09-18
deathPlace Venteuil
familyName Hippolyte Fizeau
surface form: Fizeau
fieldOfWork optics
physics
gender male
givenName Armand self-linksurface differs
Hippolyte
hasGivenName Armand self-linksurface differs
Hippolyte
Louis
hasNameInNativeLanguage Hippolyte Fizeau
surface form: Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau
influenced experimental determinations of the speed of light
knownFor Fizeau experiment
surface form: Fizeau effect

Fizeau experiment
Fizeau interferometer
Fizeau experiment
surface form: Fizeau–Foucault speed of light measurements

measurement of the speed of light
languageOfWorkOrName French
memberOf Académie des Sciences
surface form: French Academy of Sciences
nationality French
notableAchievement first reasonably accurate terrestrial measurement of the speed of light
notableFor early work in optical interferometry
pioneering measurements of the speed of light in air
occupation physicist
scientist
studied Doppler effect in light and sound
interference of light
usedMethod toothed-wheel apparatus for measuring the speed of light

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# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Armand
Description of subject: Armand is the given first name of the 19th-century French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau, known for his pioneering measurements of the speed of light.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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