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Fresnel

noun
1.
French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827).  Synonym: Augustin Jean Fresnel.



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... enemy army then devolved onto the Austrian General Fresnel who ordered a retreat, and the French army continued on its way peacefully towards the Rhine. We recrossed the river on the 2nd and 3rd of November 1813, after a campaign which included brilliant victories and disasterous defeats, the main cause of which, as I have said, was the ...
— The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, Translated by - Oliver C. Colt • Baron de Marbot


Words linked to "Fresnel" :   Augustin Jean Fresnel, Fresnel lens, physicist


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