Foucault Jean Bernard Léon

Fou·cault

(fo͞o-kō′), Jean Bernard Léon 1819-1868.
French physicist who measured the velocity of light (1850) and proved that light moves more slowly in water than in air. In 1857 he constructed the first gyroscope.
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