Google Doodle celebrates French physicist Léon Foucault’s 194th birthday with Foucault pendulum tribute
To mark the 194th birth anniversary of French physicist Léon Foucault, on SeptemberJean Bernard Léon Foucault (18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for the invention 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 although he did not invent it, is credited with naming the gyroscope.
18, Google is posting an interactive digital version of the Foucault pendulum on its home page.
The Foucault pendulum was a device created by Léon Foucault that provided experimental evidence that the Earth rotates on its axis. A son of a publisher, Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault was born on September 18, 1819 in Paris.
Léon Foucault also developed a method to measure the speed of of light. Though Foucault studied medicine he later switched his interests to experimental physics.
On Léon Foucault's birthday Google is posting an interactive digital version of the Foucault pendulum on its home page. The Foucault pendulum was first demonstrated in 1851 when Foucault suspended a heavy iron ball from a wire and used the motion of the ball to prove that the Earth rotates on its axis.
Léon Foucault died on February 11, 1868. He was 48.
New Delhi: To mark the
194th birth anniversary of French physicist Léon Foucault, on September
18, Google is posting an interactive digital version of the Foucault
pendulum on its home page.
The Foucault pendulum was a device created by Léon Foucault that
provided experimental evidence that the Earth rotates on its axis. A son
of a publisher, Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault was born on September 18,
1819 in Paris.
Léon Foucault also developed a method to measure the speed of of light.
Though Foucault studied medicine he later switched his interests to
experimental physics.
Google doodles Léon Foucault\'s pendulum for his 194th birthday
On Léon Foucault's birthday Google is posting an interactive digital
version of the Foucault pendulum on its home page.
The Foucault pendulum was first demonstrated in 1851 when Foucault
suspended a heavy iron ball from a wire and used the motion of the ball
to prove that the Earth rotates on its axis.
Léon Foucault died on February 11, 1868. He was 48.
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