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Biography

Augustin Fresnel is one of 72 scientists whose name is on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower.

He is the 13^th on the west facing side.

Jean-Augustin Fresnel, physicist, was born in Broglie, near Bernay, in this part of the former province of Normandy which today forms the department of Eure, May 10, He died in Ville-d Avray, near Paris, June 27, He entered the Ecole polytechnique at the age of sixteen, and his older brother had preceded him by one year.

Augustin fresnel biography sampler

His health was extremely feeble, and made him fear that he could not endure the fatigues of so rough a novitiate. But this stupid body contained a vigorous soul. When he left this school, after having been a brilliant pupil and having received the public congratulations of the geometer Legendre, for the difficult solution of a problem of geometry, he entered the School of Bridges and Roads, that he left with the title and functions o