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Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819 - 1868) was a French physicist perhaps best known for the invention
of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. He also
made an early measurement of the speed of light, invented a way to check that a telescope
mirror is correctly shaped, discovered eddy currents, and although he didn't invent it, is
credited with naming the gyroscope.
The Foucault crater on the Moon is named after him.
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