biography
| name: |
Lissajous, Jules Antoine
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pronunciation:
[leesazhoo]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1822–80)
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| biography:
| French physicist. He became professor at the Collège St Louis, Paris, and in 1857 invented the vibration microscope which showed visually the Lissajous figures obtained as the resultant of two simple harmonic motions at right angles to one another. His researches extended to acoustics and optics, and his system of optical telegraphy was used during the siege of Paris (1871). |
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