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    Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau FRS FRSE MIF[clarification needed] (French pronunciation: [aʁmɑ̃ ipɔlit lwi fizo]; 23 September 1819 – 18 September 1896)...
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  • In 1848−49, Hippolyte Fizeau used a toothed wheel apparatus to perform an absolute measurement of the speed of light in air. Subsequent experiments performed...
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    interference fringes. The term Fizeau interferometer also refers to an interferometric arrangement used by Hippolyte Fizeau in a famous 1851 experiment that...
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    The Fizeau experiment was carried out by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1851 to measure the relative speeds of light in moving water. Fizeau used a special interferometer...
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  • using a rotating mirror Hippolyte Fizeau Léon Foucault This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fizeau–Foucault apparatus. If...
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  • than the emitted frequency when the sound source receded from him. Hippolyte Fizeau discovered independently the same phenomenon on electromagnetic waves...
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    proposed by Albert A. Michelson in 1890, following a suggestion by Hippolyte Fizeau. The first such interferometer built was at the Mount Wilson observatory...
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    the working principle behind experiments by Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault. The setup as used by Fizeau consists of a beam of light directed at a mirror...
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    of light, and the dragging of light in moving water observed in the 1851 Fizeau experiment. The notation employs u as velocity of a body within a Lorentz...
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    optical shutters. A rotating disc chopper was famously used in 1849 by Hippolyte Fizeau in the first non-astronomical measurement of the speed of light. Optical...
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