Alexis-Marie de Rochon

Alexis-Marie de Rochon, 1804

Alexis-Marie de Rochon, known as Abbé Rochon, was born in Brest, France on 21 February 1741, and died in Paris on 5 April 1817. He was a French astronomer, physicist and traveller. He worked on lens design and crystal optics, inventing the Rochon prism polariser.

See also

French Wikipedia article on Rochon, which has much more detail.

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 56743000 ISNI: 0000 0000 8135 8653 SUDOC: 067040977 BNF: cb129983745 (data)

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