PEOPLE

Jacques Babinet

BIRTH DATE:  3/5/1794
DEATH DATE:  10/21/1872
CRAFT:  Science
NATIONALITY:  French
PROFESSION:  physicist, mathematician, and astronome
TRAVELS:  Author of Babinet's principle, which states: The diffraction pattern from an opaque body is identical to that from a hole of the same size and shape
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