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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 23 September 1819
- Died
- 18 September 1896
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- château de Venteuil, Nanteuil-le-Haudouin
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Fizeau
- Field of work
- physics
- Occupation
- physicist, astronomer, engineer, daguerreotypist, photographer
- Position held
- president of the French Academy of Sciences
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Awards
- Rumford Medal, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 72 names on the Eiffel Tower, Knight of the Legion of Honour
- birth name
- Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- has works in the collection
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, National Gallery of Canada, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photography Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, National Gallery of Art
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- member of
- Royal Society of London, Société Philomathique de Paris, French Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Bureau des Longitudes, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, Pontificia Accademia dei Nuovi Lincei, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau
- notable work
- Fizeau experiment, Fizeau interferometer, Fizeau–Foucault apparatus, Q3333600
- relative
- Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
- residence
- Paris
- student of
- Henri Victor Regnault, François Arago
- writing language
- French
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