See also:

• MARIE

MARIE See also:

• MARIE CORNU

CORNU  ,See also:

• ALFRED

ALFRED (1841—1902), See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French physicist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ORLEANS
• ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
• ORLEANS, DUKES OF
• ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
• ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
• ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
• ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
• ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
• ORLEANS, PHILIP I
• ORLEANS, PHILIP II

Orleans on the 6th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1841, and after being educated at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole See also:

• DES

des Mines, became in 1867 See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of experimental physics in the former institution, where he remained throughout his See also:

• LIFE

life . Although he made various excursions into other branches of See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, undertaking, for example, with J . B . A . Bailie about 187o a repetition of See also:

• CAVENDISH
• CAVENDISH, GEORGE (1500-1562?)
• CAVENDISH, HENRY (1731-1810)
• CAVENDISH, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1505-1557)

Cavendish's experiment for determining the mean See also:

• DENSITY (Lat. densus, thick)

density of the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth, his See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• WORK

work was mainly concerned with See also:

• OPTICS

optics and See also:

• SPECTROSCOPY (from Lat. spectrum, an appearance, and Gr. a-sore y, to see)

spectroscopy . In particular he carried out a classical redetermination of the velocity of See also:

• LIGHT

light by A . H . L . See also:

• FIZEAU, ARMAND HIPPOLYTE LOUIS (1819–1896)

Fizeau's method, introducing various improvements in the apparatus, which added greatly to the accuracy of the results . This achievement won for him, in 1878, the prix Lacaze and membership of the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Sciences in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, and the See also:

• RUMFORD, BENJAMIN THOMPSON, COUNT (1753-1814)

Rumford See also:

• MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal of the Royal Society in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . In 1899, at the See also:

• JUBILEE (or JUBILE), YEAR OF

jubilee See also:

• COMMEMORATION

commemoration of See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George See also:

• STOKES, SIR G
• STOKES, SIR GEORGE GABRIEL, BART
• STOKES, WHITLEY (1830-1909)

Stokes, he was Rede lecturer at See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, his subject being the undulatory theory of light and its See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence on See also:

• MODERN

modern physics; and on that occasion the honorary degree of D.Sc. was conferred on him by the university . He died at See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 11th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1902 .