Name Alexis-Marie Rochon Role Physicist | Died 1817, Paris, France | |
Books A voyage to Madagascar and the East Indies |
Alexis marie de rochon
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.
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