Léon Foucault
✶September 18, 1819
†February 11, 1868
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✶September 18, 1819
†February 11, 1868
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Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was a French physicist who invented the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, discovered eddy currents, and is credited with naming the gyroscope.
French physicist (1819–1868)
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