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Étienne-Louis Malus
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Malus, engraving by A. Tardieu after a painting Figure 5: Malus' experiment. Successive reflections at two unsilvered mirror surfaces, G1 and G2 (see text).
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
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Anniversary information added. Feb 19, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jun 19, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Mar 25, 2024
Modified title of Web site: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biography of �tienne Louis Malus. Jan 20, 2017
Added new Web site: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biography of �tienne Louis Malus. Apr 08, 2008
Added new Web site: University of St Andrews - Biography of Etienne Louis Malus. Feb 06, 2007
Added new Web site: Molecular Expressions - Biography of Etienne-Louis Malus. Feb 06, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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