Augustin-Jean Fresnel
1788 CE–1827 CE · Broglie, Normandy
Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose work on interference, diffraction, and polarization established the wave theory of light on firm mathematical footing. He also designed the stepped Fresnel lens, which vastly improved lighthouse illumination. He is the optical physicist, distinct from his brother Fulgence Fresnel, the orientalist and Assyriologist.
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- Pierre-Simon Laplace· 1749 CE–1827 CE
- Caroline Herschel· 1750 CE–1848 CE
- John Dalton· 1766 CE–1844 CE
- Joseph Fourier· 1768 CE–1830 CE
- Alexander von Humboldt· 1769 CE–1859 CE
- Georges Cuvier· 1769 CE–1832 CE
- Thomas Young· 1773 CE–1829 CE
- André-Marie Ampère· 1775 CE–1836 CE
- Amedeo Avogadro· 1776 CE–1856 CE
- Carl Friedrich Gauss· 1777 CE–1855 CE
- Humphry Davy· 1778 CE–1829 CE
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac· 1778 CE–1850 CE
- Jons Jacob Berzelius· 1779 CE–1848 CE
- Siméon Denis Poisson· 1781 CE–1840 CE
- Friedrich Bessel· 1784 CE–1846 CE
- Joseph von Fraunhofer· 1787 CE–1826 CE
- Georg Ohm· 1789 CE–1854 CE
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy· 1789 CE–1857 CE
- Nikolai Lobachevsky· 1792 CE–1856 CE
- Sadi Carnot· 1796 CE–1832 CE
- Niels Henrik Abel· 1802 CE–1829 CE
- Christian Doppler· 1803 CE–1853 CE
- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi· 1804 CE–1851 CE
- Évariste Galois· 1811 CE–1832 CE
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- John Quincy Adams· 1767 CE–1848 CE
- Shaka· 1787 CE–1828 CE
- William Henry Harrison· 1773 CE–1841 CE
- Sequoyah· 1770 CE–1843 CE
- Simón Bolívar· 1783 CE–1830 CE
- Andrew Jackson· 1767 CE–1845 CE
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt· 1769 CE–1849 CE
- Tenskwatawa (the Prophet)· 1775 CE–1836 CE
- Ranjit Singh· 1780 CE–1839 CE
- Bernardo O'Higgins· 1778 CE–1842 CE
- Dingane· –1840 CE
- Radama I· 1793 CE–1828 CE
- Louis-Philippe I· 1773 CE–1850 CE
- Agustín de Iturbide· 1783 CE–1824 CE
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