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    Jules Louis Gabriel Violle (16 November 1841 – 12 September 1923) was a French physicist and inventor. He is notable for having determined the solar constant...
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  • Hefnerkerze, a unit based on the output of a Hefner lamp. In 1881, Jules Violle proposed the Violle as a unit of luminous intensity, and it was notable as the...
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    lamp. A better standard for luminous intensity was needed. In 1884, Jules Violle had proposed a standard based on the light emitted by 1 cm2 of platinum...
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    obtained a value of 1.228 kW/m2, close to the current estimate. In 1875, Jules Violle resumed the work of Pouillet and offered a somewhat larger estimate of...
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    Faculty of Science of the University of Paris. His supervisors were Jules Violle and Marcel Brillouin, and the thesis jury was comprised by Charles Friedel...
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    Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804–1892), photographer and draughtsman Jules Violle (1841–1923), physicist and inventor Guy Fréquelin (born 1945), rally...
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  • Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian poet, author, and politician (d. 1908) 1841 – Jules Violle, French physicist and academic (d. 1923) 1847 – Edmund James Flynn, Canadian...
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  • Jean-Julien Champagne, and Jules Boucher). Patrick Rivière, a student of Canseliet's, believed that Fulcanelli's true identity was Jules Violle, a famous French...
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  • 1919 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian author and playwright (b. 1871) 1923 – Jules Violle, French physicist and academic (b. 1841) 1927 – Sarah Frances Whiting...
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    An actinometer instrument from the 1800s designed by Jules Violle and used to estimate the temperature of the Sun's surface....
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