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Hippolyte Fizeau : Physicist of the Light [1 ed.] ,
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Hippolyte Fizeau Physicist of the light
James Lequeux
Hippolyte Fizeau Physist of the ligth James Lequeux
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HE French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau was the first to have directly measured the velocity of light in He discovered the shift in wavelength produced by the relative velocity of a light or sound source and an observer independently from Doppler. But it is not generally known that he was also a pioneer of photography, that he performed with Léon Foucaults magnificent interference experiments, in particular in the infrared, and also that several of his other experiments put his successors on the track to Relativity. Fizeau also imagined, in , that the apparent diameter of stars could be measured by interferometry, opening the way for developments that are presently experiencing enormous success. This book is the very first devoted to the scientific work of
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Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis (–)
French physicist who was the first to measure the velocity of light on the Earth's surface. He also found that light travels faster in air than in vatten, which confirmed the wave theory of light, and that the motion of a star affects the position of the lines in its spectrum.
Fizeau was born in Paris on 23 September into a wealthy family. He began to study medicine, his father being professor of pathology at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, but was forced to abandon his medical ambitions through ill health. Fizeau then turned to physics, studying optics at the College de France and taking a course with François Arago at the Paris Observatory.
Fizeau's principal contributions to physics and astronomy cover a fairly short period of time and include the first detailed photographs of the Sun in , the proposal that a moving light source such as a star undergoes a change in observed frequency that can be detected by a shift in its s