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Hippolyte Fizeau
1819Sep, 23

Hippolyte Fizeau

Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (d. 1896)
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau FRS FRSE MIF (23 September 1819 – 18 September 1896) was a French physicist, best known for measuring the speed of light in the namesake Fizeau experiment.

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