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Jean Bernard Leon Foucault

DEFINITIONS OF: Jean Bernard Leon Foucault

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n French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air; invented the Foucault pendulum and the gyroscope (1819-1868)

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Foucault
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a scientist trained in physics
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