Léon Foucault
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Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. Umberto Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum was named after him.
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