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    Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance...
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    de Buffon, and independently reinvented by the French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827) for use in lighthouses. The catadioptric (combining...
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    optical media. They were deduced by French engineer and physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel (/freɪˈnɛl/) who was the first to understand that light is a transverse...
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    The Fresnel integrals S(x) and C(x) are two transcendental functions named after Augustin-Jean Fresnel that are used in optics and are closely related...
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    A Fresnel zone (English: /freɪˈnɛl/ fray-NEL), named after physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, is one of a series of confocal prolate ellipsoidal regions...
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    The Huygens–Fresnel principle (named after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens and French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel) states that every point on a...
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  • particular scalar diffraction theory, the Fresnel number (F), named after the physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, is a dimensionless number relating to the...
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    Euler spiral (redirect from Fresnel spiral)
    for the limit (by "happy chance"). Augustin Fresnel, working in 1818 on the diffraction of light, developed the Fresnel integral that defines the same spiral...
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    domain. Fraunhofer diffraction Fresnel integral Fresnel zone Fresnel number Augustin-Jean Fresnel Ridged mirror Fresnel imager Euler spiral Born, Max;...
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  • French Orientalist. He was brother to the noted physicist Augustin Fresnel (1788–1827). Fresnel was an Orientalist scholar who led one of the first archaeological...
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