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Léon Foucault

Died on February 11, 1868

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Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (UK:, US:; French:; 18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist who invented the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of Earth's rotation.

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