Hippolyte Fizeau
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Hippolyte Fizeau was a 19th-century French physicist best known for making one of the first accurate measurements of the speed of light and for his pioneering work on optical interference and the behavior of light in moving media.
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| instanceOf |
19th-century scientist
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French physicist → human → physicist → |
| almaMater |
École Polytechnique
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| awardReceived |
Rumford Medal
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| birthCountry |
France
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| birthDate |
1819-09-23
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| birthPlace |
Paris
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| burialPlace |
Cimetière du Montparnasse
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| coDiscovered |
method for measuring speed of light with Léon Foucault
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| coWorkedWith |
Léon Foucault
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| deathCountry |
France
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| deathDate |
1896-09-18
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| deathPlace |
Nanteuil-le-Haudouin
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| era |
19th century
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| familyName |
Fizeau
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| fieldOfWork |
optics
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physics → |
| fullName |
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau
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| gender |
male
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| givenName |
Armand
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Hippolyte → |
| hasAstronomicalObjectNamedAfter |
11757 Fizeau
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Fizeau crater → |
| hasNameInLanguage |
Hippolyte Fizeau@en
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Hippolyte Fizeau@fr → |
| influenced |
Albert Einstein
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development of special relativity → |
| knownFor |
Fizeau effect
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Fizeau experiment → Fizeau interferometer → Fizeau–Foucault experiment → early measurement of the speed of light in water → measurement of the speed of light → optical interference experiments → study of light in moving media → |
| memberOf |
French Academy of Sciences
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| nationality |
French
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| notableAchievement |
performed first reasonably accurate terrestrial measurement of the speed of light in 1849
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provided experimental evidence relevant to the partial aether-drag hypothesis → used toothed-wheel apparatus to measure speed of light → |
| studied |
interference of light
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speed of light in moving water → |
| workLocation |
Paris
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Referenced by (6)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Hippolyte Fizeau
("Hippolyte Fizeau@en")
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Hippolyte Fizeau ("Hippolyte Fizeau@fr") → |
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Hippolyte Fizeau
("Fizeau")
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familyName |
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Hippolyte Fizeau
("Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau")
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fullName |
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel
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influenced |
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Poisson spot
("François Arago")
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wasExperimentallyConfirmedBy |