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Hippolyte Fizeau

Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau

French physicist (1819–1896).

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Sex or Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Paris
Country
:
Bourbon Restoration in France

Occupation

Physicist
Astronomer
Engineer
Daguerreotypist
Photographer

Country of Citizenship

Belgium

Member Of

Royal Society
(4/8/1875 - )
Subject Has Role
:
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Start Time
: 4/8/1875
Société Philomathique De Paris
French Academy of Sciences
(1860 - )
Start Time
: 1860
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
Bureau Des Longitudes
(1878 - )
Start Time
: 1878
Accademia Nazionale Delle Scienze Detta Dei XL
Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala
(1870 - )
Start Time
: 1870

Place of Death

Château De Venteuil
Country
:
French Third Republic
Located in the Administrative Territorial Entity
:
Jouarre
Nanteuil-Le-Haudouin
Country
:
French Third Republic

Date of Birth

9/23/1819

Date of Death

9/18/1896

Instance Of

Human

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Educated At

Collège Stanislas De Paris
( - 1840)
End Time
: 1840
Paris Medical Faculty
(1840 - 1841)
Start Time
: 1840
End Time
: 1841
Collège De France
(1842 - )
Start Time
: 1842

Given Name

Hippolyte
Series Ordinal
:2
Armand
Series Ordinal
:1
Louis
Series Ordinal
:3

Described by Source

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)
Section
:Физо Арман Ипполит Луи
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Statement Is Subject Of
:
Q24506645
Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Statement Is Subject Of
:
Q87337592
Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Statement Is Subject Of
:
Q24747554
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th Edition
Statement Is Subject Of
:
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis
Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
Page(s)
:277

Award Received

Rumford Medal
(1866)
Point in Time
: 1866
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
(4/8/1875)
Point in Time
: 4/8/1875
72 Names on the Eiffel Tower
Knight of the Legion of Honour
(1849)
Point in Time
: 1849

Residence

Paris

Birth Name

Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau

Student Of

Henri Victor Regnault
François Arago

Name in Native Language

Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau

Archives At

Manuscripts and Archives Department Yale University Library

Field of Work

Physics

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

French

Has Works in the Collection

Art Institute of Chicago
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
National Gallery of Canada
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photography Collection
Location
:
New York Public Library Main Branch
J. Paul Getty Museum

Notable Work

Doppler Effect
Reason for Deprecated Rank
:
Ambiguity
Fizeau Experiment
Fizeau Interferometer
Fizeau–Foucault Apparatus
Q3333600

Family Name

Fizeau

Position Held

President of the French Academy of Sciences
(1/1/1878 - 12/31/1878)
Series Ordinal
:180
Replaces
:
Eugène-Melchior Péligot
Replaced By
:
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
Start Time
: 1/1/1878
End Time
: 12/31/1878

Relative

Adrien-Henri De Jussieu
Kinship to Subject
:
Father-in-Law

Described at URL

http://www.digiporta.net/index.php?i ...

Writing Language

French
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