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Leon Foucault

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Profession
Physicist
Died
Feb 11, 1868
Zodiac
Virgo
Born in
ParisFrance
About
French physicist who demonstrated the Earth's rotation and measured the speed of light. For his breakthrough discoveries he was elected a member of the Royal Society of London, even though he was French.
Family
His father was a publisher in Paris, France.

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