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Noun: Foucault  foo'kow
  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)
    - Jean Bernard Leon Foucault

Type of: physicist

Encyclopedia: Foucault, Jean-Bertrand-Léon Foucault, Jean-Bertrand-Leon Foucault Foucault, Michael Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, Jean Bernard Leon

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