Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Portrait of "Augustin Fresnel"from the frontispiece of his collected works (1866)
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a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light
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Born
10 May 1788 Broglie, Kingdom of France
Died
14 July 1827 (aged 39) Ville-d'Avray, Kingdom of France
Nationality
French
Known for
Birefringence Diffraction Fresnel–Arago laws Fresnel equations Fresnel integrals Fresnel lens Fresnel number Fresnel rhomb Fresnel zone Huygens–Fresnel principle Phasor representation Polarization Wave
Fields
Physics, Engineering
Awards
1819: Academy Grand Prix 1824: Légion d'Honneur 1825: ForMemRS 1827 for '24: Rumford Medal
Institutions
Corps des Ponts Athénée ( 1819–20 ) École Polytech ( 1821–4 )
adultbasic
France
Education
École Polytechnique ( 1804–6 ) École des Ponts
era
1800+
Influenced
Augustin-Louis Cauchy William Rowan Hamilton Humphrey Lloyd (among others).
Influences
Christiaan Huygens Thomas Young François Arago
Relatives
Fulgence Fresnel (brother) Léonor Mérimée (uncle) Prosper Mérimée (cousin)
Resting place
Père Lachaise Cemetery