Hippolyte Fizeau
1819
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1896
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: France
languages spoken, written or signed: French
educated at: Collège Stanislas de Paris
occupation: physicist, astronomer, engineer, daguerreotypist, photographer
award received: Rumford Medal, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 72 names on the Eiffel Tower
position held: president
student of: Henri Victor Regnault, François Arago
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau FRS FRSE MIF (French pronunciation: [aʁmɑ̃ ipɔlit lwi fizo]; 23 September 1819 – 18 September 1896) was a French physicist, who in 1849 measured the speed of light to within 5% accuracy. In 1851, he measured the speed of light in moving water in an experiment known as the Fizeau experiment. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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