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French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the acceptance of the wave theory of light
Augustin Jean Fresnel
Works
Letter to Arago on biaxial birefringence, 21 September 1821 (translated).
Works about Fresnel
- The wave theory of light; memoirs of Huygens, Young and Fresnel by Henry Crew, 1900 (external scan)
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