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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