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    Étienne-Louis Malus (/ˈɛt.i.ɛn ˈluː.i məˈluːs/; French: [e.tjɛn.lwi ma.lys]; 23 July 1775 – 23 February 1812) was a French officer, engineer, physicist...
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    in the genus Pyrus, and transferred to Malus in 1803 to produce the nomenclatural treatment used here. Malus prunifolia is found in China in the provinces...
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    two conventions are contradictory. As originally defined by Étienne-Louis Malus in 1811, the plane of polarization coincided (although this was not known...
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    Polarizer (redirect from Malus' Law)
    medium behaves like a metal (reflective). Malus' law (/məˈluːs/), which is named after Étienne-Louis Malus, says that when a perfect polarizer is placed...
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    The Malus-Dupin theorem is a theorem in geometrical optics discovered by Étienne-Louis Malus in 1808 and clarified by Charles Dupin in 1822. Hamilton proved...
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    reflection from a surface at a particular angle was first observed by Étienne-Louis Malus in 1808. He attempted to relate the polarizing angle to the refractive...
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    branches, then death. Malus sieversii has previously been identified as the main contributor to the genome of the cultivated apple (Malus domestica), on the...
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    Apple (redirect from Malus domestica)
    round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus spp., among them the domestic or orchard apple; Malus domestica). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide...
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    Laplace's theory was tested experimentally by his protégé, Étienne-Louis Malus. Taking Laplace's formula for the refractive index as given, and using...
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  • Look up malus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Malus, the apples, is a genus of about 30–35 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family...
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    Malus sylvestris, the European crab apple, also known as the European wild apple or simply the crab apple, is a species of the genus Malus, native to Europe...
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    DELAMBRE Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre astronomer NE06 MALUS Étienne-Louis Malus physicist NE07 BREGUET Louis Breguet physicist and inventor NE08 POLONCEAU Camille...
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    known as polarising filters or simply "polarisers". Malus' law, which is named after Étienne-Louis Malus, says that when a perfect polariser is placed in...
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  • qualitatively explained by Newton using the particle theory. Étienne-Louis Malus in 1810 created a mathematical particle theory of polarization. Jean-Baptiste...
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  • by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. Herschel's suggestion was not widely adopted and Malus is not now recognized by astronomers. Argo Navis Malus, ‍an ‍attempted...
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    qualitatively explained by Newton using the particle theory. Étienne-Louis Malus in 1810 created a mathematical particle theory of polarization. Jean-Baptiste...
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    W. (February 2011). "Pioneers in Optics: Leonhard Euler and Étienne-Louis Malus". Microscopy Today. 19 (2): 52–54. doi:10.1017/s1551929511000046. S2CID 122853454...
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    was observed in the early 1800s by the mathematician Étienne-Louis Malus, after whom Malus's law is named. Polarizing sunglasses exploit this effect to...
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    sample. Polarization by reflection was discovered in 1808 by Étienne-Louis Malus (1775–1812). The ratio, the purity, and the concentration of two enantiomers...
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    unprecedented accuracy, by Étienne-Louis Malus, and found to be consistent with Huygens's spheroid construction, not Newton's "Rule". Malus, encouraged by Pierre-Simon...
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    mineral order when needed. As early as 1808, the French physicist Étienne Louis Malus discovered the refraction and polarization of light.  William Nicol invented...
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  • 1845, it was known through the work of Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Étienne-Louis Malus, and others that different materials are able to modify the direction...
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    method  can be used to solve multiple-surface problems. In 1808, Étienne-Louis Malus discovered that when a ray of light was reflected off a non-metallic...
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    Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for French physicist Étienne-Louis Malus, who discovered the polarization of light by reflection, a fact subsequently...
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    Pierre-Simon Laplace, reporting on the work of his protégé Étienne-Louis Malus, claimed that the extraordinary refraction of calcite could be explained...
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    these — just under half spoke against Goethe, especially Thomas Young, Louis Malus, Pierre Prévost and Gustav Theodor Fechner. One third of the statements...
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    - Ma'at - Ma3looma - Maat Kheru - Mafdet - Naguib Mahfouz - Étienne-Louis Malus - Mamluk - Manetho - Auguste Mariette - Mark the Evangelist - Gaston...
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  • Australia (1913–1979) Juan Martín Maldacena – Argentina (born 1968) Étienne-Louis Malus – France (1775–1812) Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam – Imperial Russia...
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    responsible for refraction of the corpuscles of light. Laplace and Étienne-Louis Malus also showed that Huygens principle of double refraction could be recovered...
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  • "Étienne-Louis Malus". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. "Benoit Mandelbrot". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. "Claude Louis Marie Henri...
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