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Jean Bernard Leon Foucault   Listen
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault

noun
1.
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).  Synonym: Foucault.






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