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February 11, 1868
Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (born 1819)
Léon Foucault
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, discovered eddy currents, and is credited with naming the gyroscope.
February 11
February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 323 days remain until the end of the year.