Étienne-Louis Malus was a French officer, engineer, physicist and mathematician, born in 1775 and dying in 1812. He was a member of the mathematics section of the Institut d'Égypte, became a member of the Académie des Sciences in 1810, and in the same year was awarded the Rumford Medal by the Royal Society of London. His work concerned the nature of light, and he proposed that light corpuscules have polarity, like magnetic poles. He remained associated with the École Polytechnique as an examiner all his life.
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23 July 1775
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He was to remain associated with École Polytechnique as an examiner all his life.
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Étienne Louis Malus was a French mathematician who was almost entirely concerned with the study of light.
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was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician
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was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician
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Malus became a member of the Académie des Sciences in 1810.
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