About Augustin-Jean Fresnel
[Wikidata] French engineer and physicist (1788-1827)... | [Wikipedia] Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, fully supplanting Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s until the end of the 19th century. He is perhaps better known for inventing
