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Léon Foucault

Date of Birth 18-September-1819
Place of Birth Paris
(ÃŽle-de-France, France, Seine)
Nationality France
Also know as Leon Foucault, Jean Bernard Leon Foucault
Profession Physicist
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, discovered eddy currents, and is credited with naming the gyroscope.

Awards by Léon Foucault

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Copley Medal
(For his various researches in experimental physics.)