Augustin-Jean Fresnel

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France, Physician
May 10, 1788 – July, 14, 1827.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830sā€Š until the end of the 19th century.

Also known as Civil Engineer

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