biography
| name: |
Malus, Etienne Louis
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pronunciation:
[malüs]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1775–1812)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Paris, France. A military engineer in Napoleon's army (1796–1801), he carried out research in optics and discovered the polarization of light by reflection. His paper explaining the theory of double refraction in crystals won him the Institute's Prize in 1810. |
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