Marie Alfred Cornu (French: [kɔʁny]; 6 March 1841 – 12 April 1902) was a French physicist. The French generally refer to him as Alfred Cornu. Cornu was...

the speed of light in air. Subsequent experiments performed by Marie Alfred Cornu from 1872 to 1876 improved the methodology and made more accurate measurements...

clothoid or Cornu spiral. The behavior of Fresnel integrals can be illustrated by an Euler spiral, a connection first made by Marie Alfred Cornu in 1874....

Marie Cornu may refer to: Marie Alfred Cornu (1841–1902), French physicist Marie Maxime Cornu (1843–1901), French botanist and mycologist This disambiguation...

instrument Dominique Cornu (born 1985), Belgian road and track cyclist Marie Alfred Cornu (1841–1902), French physicist for whom the Cornu spiral (also known...

in the context of Euler–Bernoulli beam theory. A century later, Marie Alfred Cornu constructed the same spiral as a nomogram for diffraction computations...

airplane pioneer. February 24 – Carl Gräbe, (died 1927) chemist. March 6 – Alfred Cornu (died 1902), physicist. August 4 – W. H. Hudson (died 1922), naturalist...

Eric Allin Cornell – United States (born 1961) Nobel laureate Marie Alfred Cornu – France (1841–1902) Charles-Augustin de Coulomb – France (1736–1806)...

March 6 – Moritz Kaposi (born 1837), Hungarian dermatologist. April 12 – Alfred Cornu (born 1841), French physicist May 26 – Almon Strowger (born 1839), American...

Cornu (July 16, 1843, in Orléans – April 3, 1901 in Paris) was a French botanist and mycologist. He was a younger brother of physicist Alfred Cornu (1841–1902)...

in the system's output. The Cornu depolarizer was one of the earliest designs, named after its inventor Marie Alfred Cornu. It consists of a pair of 45°...

the lesser cornu of the hyoid and the upper part of the body of the hyoid. The cartilage of the third pharyngeal arch forms the greater cornu of the hyoid...

Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian cardinal (b. 1820) 1902 – Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist and academic (b. 1842) 1906 – Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna...

Stokes's work covered a wide range of physical inquiry but, as Marie Alfred Cornu remarked in his Rede Lecture of 1899, the greater part of it was concerned...

Doctoral advisor Hermann von Helmholtz Other academic advisors Marie Alfred Cornu Georg Hermann Quincke Doctoral students Robert Millikan William Smythe...

Maria Spiropulu Marian Danysz Marian Smoluchowski Mariano Gago Marie Alfred Cornu Marie Curie Marietta Blau Marijan Šunjić (physicist) Marin (wind) Marin...

interested in physics and, in 1881, resigned his commission to join Alfred Cornu's laboratory at the École Polytechnique, working on spectroscopy. He continued...

installed a relay for the Paris-Bayonne telegraph line. On 5 June 1874, Alfred Cornu tried to calculate the speed of light between the tower and the Observatory...

also did extensive research on Stellar Spectra with Georges Salet and Alfred Cornu. Eginitis carried out equatorial observations following the meridian...

and Dewar observed that alkali spectra appeared to form a series and Alfred Cornu found similar structure in the spectra of thallium and aluminum, setting...

classes by Leonard Zonke. He also went to Paris and studied under Marie Alfred Cornu. While in Paris he married Vera Vasilyevna Yakunchikova. He returned...

1898 Henry Irving The theatre in its relation to the state 1899 Marie Alfred Cornu La théorie des ondes lumineuses: son influence sur la physique moderne...

to Philipp Lenard and Wilhelm Röntgen and in 1918, to Charles Fabry and Alfred Perot. From 1800 to 2018, the medal was awarded biennially; since then it...

genus Cornus and the family Cornaceae. Arnold dogwood is derived from natural crosses between silky dogwood (Cornus amomum) and gray dogwood (Cornus racemosa)...

Tisserand, astronomer 1895–1897: Jules Janssen, astronomer 1897–1899: Alfred Cornu, physicist 1899–1901: Octave Callandreau, physicist 1901–1903: Henri...

sound), Claude Chappe (experiments with optical telegraphy in 1794) and Alfred Cornu (measurement of the speed of light in 1874). Visitors today can see the...

Netherlands 1946—1948 and 1958—1959; in Roermond (d. 1977) Died: Marie Alfred Cornu, 61, French physicist (b. 1841) De Witt Talmage, 70, popular American...

Jerseywoman Eliza Le Cornu (1859-1934), who married around 1879. They had eleven children, three of whom died in infancy. Alfred's known siblings were...

February – Marie-Louise Gagneur, feminist (born 1832) 12 April – Marie Alfred Cornu, physicist (born 1841) 15 April – Jules Dalou, sculptor (born 1838) 4...

principles of instruments, and, using as a basis Mercadier's and Marie Alfred Cornu's experiments on the relationship between the frequencies of fundamental...