Léon Foucault (1819 to 1868) was a French physicist who invented the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, discovered eddy currents and is credited with naming the gyroscope. He worked as a physicist at the imperial observatory in Paris, became a member of the Royal Society of London in 1864 and a member of the mechanical section of the Institute a year later. Born in 1819, he died in 1868.
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