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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) is chiefly remembered for discovering the three laws of planetary motion that bear his name. He also did important work in optics, discovered two new regular polyhedra, ...
Biography of Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788 - 1817) was a French physicist whose pioneering work in optics did much to establish the wave theory of light.
Autobiography of Ernst Ruska
Ernst Ruska (1906 - 1988) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1986 for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope.
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