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unusual facts about Augustin-Jean Fresnel



Aerodynamic Park

On the grassy areas of the park is the site-specific sound art "Air Borne" (Stefan Krüskemper with the collaboration of Karlheinz Essl) located, in a loose spatial relation to the monuments of the German Experimental Institute for Aviation and the exceptional university buildings (Architects: Volker Staab with Alfred Nieuwenhuizen, Georg Augustin and Ute Frank, a.o.).

Andrée-Anne St-Arnaud

Economic news reporter, Andrée-Anne St-Arnaud (born c. 1979) was raised in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, a western suburb of Quebec City near Cap-Rouge.

Arnold Schaefer

In 1851 he was appointed to the Royal Saxon state school (St. Augustin gymnasium) in Grimma.

Auguste Feyen-Perrin

François Nicolas Augustin Feyen known as Feyen-Perrin (Bey-sur-Seille 12 April 1826 - Paris, 14 October 1888) was a French painter.

Augustin Berque

Augustin Berque, born in 1942, Rabat, Morocco, is a French geographer, Orientalist and philosopher.

Augustin de La Balme

Augustin Mottin was born 28 August 1733, in the French Alps near Saint-Antoine, the son of a tanner.

In northeast Indiana, near the Allen – Whitley County line, along the Eel River, A brass and stone marker placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1930, reads: "In memory of Col. Augustin de La Balme and his soldiers who were killed in battle with the Miami Indians under Little Turtle at this place, November 5, 1780."

Augustin Mottin de la Balme was a French cavalry officer who served in Europe during the Seven Years War and in the United States during the American Revolution.

The French forces were nearly destroyed at the Battle of Minden, but Augustin Mottin was one of the surviving French Cavalry officers.

Augustin Dontenwill

Augustin Dontenwill (June 4, 1857 – November 30, 1931) was the Roman Catholic Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) priest, who became Archbishop of Vancouver, Canada, from 1899 to 1908.

Augustin Dupré

Augustin Dupré (6 October 1748, Saint-Étienne - 30 January 1833, Armentières-en-Brie) was an engraver of French currency and medals, the 14th Graveur général des monnaies (Engraver General of Currency).

Augustin Lesage

Augustin Lesage, (born August 9, 1876 in Saint-Pierre-les-Auchel (Pas-de-Calais) and died February 21, 1954), was a French coal miner who became painter and artist through the help of what he considered to be spirit voices.

Augustin Thompson

Augustin Thompson (Union, Maine on November 25, 1835 - June 8, 1903) was a physician, business person and philanthropist who created the Moxie soft drink and the company that manufactures it.

Augustin-Joseph de Mailly

Made a chevalier du Saint-Esprit on 26 May 1776, he was made marshal of France on 13 June 1783 and due to his age was able to be governor of Abbeville, sénéchal and Grand bailli of Ponthieu not far from his lands and château.

Augustin-Magloire Blanchet

The younger brother of François Norbert Blanchet, Augustin Blanchet studied at Le Petit Séminaire de Québec and then at the Grand Seminary of Quebec.

Augustin-Marie d'Aboville

During the return trip of the expedition, d'Aboville was placed in command of the 36-pounder battery of the ship of the line Bucentaure, which was involved in the battle engaged by the French squadron with that of British Admiral Robert Calder.

The debut of the Napoleonic Wars saw d'Aboville join the expedition to Martinique, under the orders of General Lauriston.

Baron Augustin-Marie d'Aboville (1776–1843) was a French artillery officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, who rose to the rank of general of brigade.

Taking a brief part to the July Revolution of 1830, which saw the ousting of King Charles X, d'Aboville was then included in the reserve on 22 March 1831.

Augustin-Pierre Dubrunfaut

Mutarotation was discovered by Dubrunfaut in 1846, when he noticed that the specific rotation of aqueous sugar solution changes with time.

Augustinus Olomucensis

Czapla gives a brief overview of the controversy about Augustin's birthplace, which has its roots in his sometimes giving his last name as "Käsenbrot von Wssehrd" ("of Všehrdy").

Cauchy theorem

Several theorems are named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy.

Émile Littré

He had long discussions with Father Louis Millériot, a celebrated Controversialist, and Abbé Henri Huvelin, the noted priest of Église Saint-Augustin, who were much grieved at his death.

Forest of la Coubre

Around its remaining perimeter, it contains or is adjacent to numerous communes including La Tremblade, Les Mathes, Arvert, Étaules, Saint-Augustin and Saint-Palais-sur-Mer.

Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny

Gaspard Augustin René Bernard de Marigny (2 November 1754, Luçon – 10 July 1794, Combrand) was a French officer and Vendéen general.

Gaspard Gourgaud

His extreme sensitiveness and vanity soon brought him into collision with Napoleon's other companions, Las Cases and Montholon, in their exile at Longwood.

Gilles Binya

Gilles Augustin Binya (born 29 August 1984 in Yaoundé) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for Gaziantepspor in the Turkish Süper Lig.

Heinrich Zollinger

From 1837-1838 he studied botany at the University of Geneva under Augustin and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, but had to interrupt his studies due to financial problems.

Henri Le Sidaner

Henri Eugène Augustin Le Sidaner (7 August 1862 – July 1939) was an intimist painter born to a French family in Port Louis, Mauritius.

History of the Ursulines in New Orleans

The names of some are known: Sister Saint-Augustin (Marie Tranchepain, the mother superior), Sister Angélique (Marie le Boullanger), and Dame Jude, all from Rouen; and Mother François-Xavier from le Havre, Madame Cavelier from Elbeuf, two other cities in Normandy.

Infinitesimal

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the calculus was reformulated by Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Bernard Bolzano, Karl Weierstrass, Cantor, Dedekind, and others using the (ε, δ)-definition of limit and set theory.

Kabenau River

Kabenau River (also Gabina or St. Augustin River) is a river in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

Kingdom of Tondo

In 1587, Magat Salamat, one of the children of Rajah Lakan Dula, and with his Spanish enforced name Augustin de Legazpi, Lakan Dula's nephew, and the lords of the neighboring areas of Tondo, Pandakan, Marikina, Kandaba, Nabotas and Bulakan were martryed for secretly conspiring to overthrow the Spanish colonizers.

La fausse esclave

It has a French-language libretto based on Louis Anseaume and Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville’s libretto for La fausse aventurière (The False Adventuress), an opéra comique by Jean Louis Laruette.

Léon Vasseur

Vasseur was born in Bapaume in north-east France, the son of Augustin Vasseur, the local church organist and choirmaster.

Luigi Cherubini

His tomb was designed by the architect Achille Leclère and includes a figure by the sculptor Augustin-Alexandre Dumont representing "Music" crowning a bust of the composer with a wreath.

Mother Joseph Pariseau

In 1856 Augustin-Magloire Blanchet, the bishop of the new Diocese of Nesqually (now the Archdiocese of Seattle), approached Mother Émilie Gamelin, the foundress of the Sisters of Providence, seeking their assistance for his diocese in the Pacific Northwest Territories of the United States.

Photophoresis

Discovery of photophoresis is usually attributed to Felix Ehrenhaft in the 1920s, though earlier observations were made by others including Augustin-Jean Fresnel.

Piotr Anderszewski

Anderszewski's chamber collaborations so far have been primarily with violinists - as well as his sister Dorota Anderszewska (currently leader of the Orchestre national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon), he has performed with Viktoria Mullova, Augustin Dumay, Gidon Kremer, Frank Peter Zimmermann and Henning Kraggerud.

Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier

The main communities are Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Donnacona, Lac-Beauport, Neuville, Pont-Rouge, Shannon, Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, Saint-Raymond, Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, and Deschambault-Grondines.

Rimouski

Originally from Ouanne in the Burgundy region, he exchanged property he owned on the Île d'Orléans with Augustin Rouer de la Cardonnière for the Seigneurie of Rimouski, which extended along the St. Lawrence River from the Hâtée River at Le Bic to the Métis River.

Rouge-Cloître Abbey

The foundation was confirmed in 1373 by Gérard de Dainville, Bishop of Cambrai and the following year was affiliated to the order of Chanoines réguliers de saint Augustin (Canons Regular of St. Augustine).

Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, Quebec

The border crossing of Woburn-Coburn Gore is located roughly five kilometres from the town centre, linking Quebec Route 161 with Maine State Route 27.

St. Augustin, Coburg

On 15 July 1909, the Protestant Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha married the Roman Catholic Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera, in a civil ceremony at Schloss Rosenau, followed by a Roman Catholic religious ceremony at St. Augustin and a Lutheran one in Schloss Callenberg.

Tex Blaisdell

144 West 57th Street, overlooking dance studios and the rear of Carnegie Hall, a studio space he shared with artists Tom Sawyer and Carl Anderson, letterer Ben Oda and scriptwriter John Augustin.

Victor Turpo

In 1968, he graduated from the Regional School of Art Carlos Bacaflor, Arequipa, Peru and in 1980 obtained a bachelor degree in architecture with a specialization in exterior and interior at the UNSA (National University of St Augustin of Arequipa)


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