David Brewster
Sir David Brewster KH PRSE FRS FSA Scot FSSA MICE (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a Scottish & British scientist, inventor, author, and academic administrator. In science he is principally remembered for his experimental work in physical optics, mostly concerned with the study of the polarization of light and including the discovery of Brewster's angle. He studied the birefringence of crystals under compression and discovered photoelasticity, thereby creating the field of optical mineralogy. For this work, William Whewell dubbed him the "father of modern experimental optics" and "the Johannes Kepler of optics."
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David Brewster
Sir David Brewster KH PRSE FRS FSA Scot FSSA MICE (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a Scottish & British scientist, inventor, author, and academic administrator. In science he is principally remembered for his experimental work in physical optics, mostly concerned with the study of the polarization of light and including the discovery of Brewster's angle. He studied the birefringence of crystals under compression and discovered photoelasticity, thereby creating the field of optical mineralogy. For this work, William Whewell dubbed him the "father of modern experimental optics" and "the Johannes Kepler of optics."
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Founding Director of the Scottish Society of Arts
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David BREWSTER (naskiĝis la 11 ...... n kaj plibonigis stereoskopon.
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David Brewster (11. prosince 1 ...... ik, vynálezce a historik vědy.
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David Brewster (1781 - 1868) f ...... de Edimburgo, de 1859 a 1868.
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David Brewster (1781 - 1868) v ...... t d'Edimburg del 1859 al 1868.
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David Brewster (Jedburgh (Scho ...... an de dioptrische stereoscoop.
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David Brewster, FRS, (Jedburgh ...... cientista e inventor escocês.
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Fisicí Albanach ab ea David Br ...... rb é a cheap an cailéideascóp.
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Sir David Brewster (Jedburgh, ...... n fisico e inventore scozzese.
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Sir David Brewster (Jedburgh, ...... nteur et un écrivain écossais.
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Sir David Brewster (ur. 11 gru ...... zwierciadlanego Wheatstone'a.
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