Hippolyte Fizeau
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Hippolyte Fizeau was a 19th-century French physicist best known for making one of the first accurate measurements of the speed of light and for his pioneering work on optical interference and the behavior of light in moving media.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hippolyte Fizeau canonical | 9 |
| Fizeau | 3 |
| Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau | 2 |
| François Arago | 1 |
| French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau | 1 |
| Hippolyte Fizeau@en | 1 |
| Hippolyte Fizeau@fr | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T304942 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hippolyte Fizeau Context triple: [Augustin-Jean Fresnel, influenced, Hippolyte Fizeau]
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A.
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French physicist best known for his pioneering work on the wave theory of light and the invention of Fresnel lenses used in lighthouses.
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B.
Albert A. Michelson
Albert A. Michelson was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his precise measurements of the speed of light and foundational contributions to experimental physics.
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C.
Paul Langevin
Paul Langevin was a French physicist known for his pioneering work in statistical mechanics, magnetism, and the development of theories describing Brownian motion.
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D.
Jean Perrin
Jean Perrin was a French physicist who confirmed the atomic nature of matter through his pioneering experimental studies of Brownian motion, work for which he received the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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E.
Edward W. Morley
Edward W. Morley was an American chemist and physicist best known for his collaboration with Albert A. Michelson on the landmark Michelson–Morley experiment that challenged the existence of the luminiferous aether and paved the way for modern physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hippolyte Fizeau Target entity description: Hippolyte Fizeau was a 19th-century French physicist best known for making one of the first accurate measurements of the speed of light and for his pioneering work on optical interference and the behavior of light in moving media.
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A.
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French physicist best known for his pioneering work on the wave theory of light and the invention of Fresnel lenses used in lighthouses.
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B.
Albert A. Michelson
Albert A. Michelson was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his precise measurements of the speed of light and foundational contributions to experimental physics.
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C.
Paul Langevin
Paul Langevin was a French physicist known for his pioneering work in statistical mechanics, magnetism, and the development of theories describing Brownian motion.
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D.
Jean Perrin
Jean Perrin was a French physicist who confirmed the atomic nature of matter through his pioneering experimental studies of Brownian motion, work for which he received the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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E.
Edward W. Morley
Edward W. Morley was an American chemist and physicist best known for his collaboration with Albert A. Michelson on the landmark Michelson–Morley experiment that challenged the existence of the luminiferous aether and paved the way for modern physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
19th-century scientist
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French physicist ⓘ human ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| almaMater | École Polytechnique ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Rumford Medal ⓘ |
| birthCountry | France ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1819-09-23 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Paris ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Montparnasse Cemetery
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surface form:
Cimetière du Montparnasse
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| coDiscovered | method for measuring speed of light with Léon Foucault ⓘ |
| coWorkedWith | Léon Foucault ⓘ |
| deathCountry | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1896-09-18 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Nanteuil-le-Haudouin ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName |
Hippolyte Fizeau
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surface form:
Fizeau
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| fieldOfWork |
optics
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physics ⓘ |
| fullName |
Hippolyte Fizeau
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surface form:
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Armand
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Hippolyte ⓘ |
| hasAstronomicalObjectNamedAfter |
11757 Fizeau
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Fizeau crater ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage |
Hippolyte Fizeau
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surface form:
Hippolyte Fizeau@en
Hippolyte Fizeau self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hippolyte Fizeau@fr
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| influenced |
Albert Einstein
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development of special relativity ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Fizeau experiment
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surface form:
Fizeau effect
Fizeau experiment ⓘ Fourier transform spectrometer ⓘ
surface form:
Fizeau interferometer
Fizeau experiment ⓘ
surface form:
Fizeau–Foucault experiment
early measurement of the speed of light in water ⓘ measurement of the speed of light ⓘ optical interference experiments ⓘ study of light in moving media ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Académie des Sciences
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surface form:
French Academy of Sciences
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| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
performed first reasonably accurate terrestrial measurement of the speed of light in 1849
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provided experimental evidence relevant to the partial aether-drag hypothesis ⓘ used toothed-wheel apparatus to measure speed of light ⓘ |
| studied |
interference of light
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speed of light in moving water ⓘ |
| workLocation | Paris ⓘ |
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Referenced by (18)
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this entity surface form:
François Arago
this entity surface form:
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau
this entity surface form:
Fizeau
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Hippolyte Fizeau@en
this entity surface form:
Hippolyte Fizeau@fr
this entity surface form:
French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau
subject surface form:
Hippolyte Fizeau
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Fizeau
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Hippolyte Fizeau
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Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau
this entity surface form:
Fizeau
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Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau
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Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau