Alexis-Marie de Rochon
Alexis-Marie de Rochon, 1804
Alexis-Marie de Rochon, known as Abbé Rochon, was born in Brest, France on 21 February 1741, and died in Paris on 5 April 1817. He was a French astronomer, physicist and traveller. He worked on lens design and crystal optics, inventing the Rochon prism polariser.
See also
- French Wikipedia article on Rochon, which has much more detail.
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