- Born
- September 18, 1819
- Died
- February 11, 1868 (aged 48)
- Known as
- physicist, astronomer
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was a French physicist who invented the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, discovered eddy currents, and is credited with naming the gyroscope.
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