Marcel Émile Verdet

French physicist

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In optics: Development and examples of the theory
Marcel Verdet, a French physicist, realized in the 19th century that even sunlight is not completely incoherent, and two objects separated by distances of over approximately 1/20 millimetre will produce interference effects. The eye, operating unaided in sunlight, does not resolve this separation distance and hence…
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