Jean-Daniel Colladon

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Jean-Daniel Colladon

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Jean-Daniel Colladon's Degrees

• PhD Physics University of Geneva

Why Is Jean-Daniel Colladon Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Jean-Daniel Colladon was a Swiss physicist. Colladon studied law but then worked in the laboratories of Ampère and Fourier. He received an Académie des Sciences award with his friend Charles Sturm for their measurement of the speed of sound and the breaking up of water jetss. Stymied by the lack of a sight of the water jet provided to the audience, he used a tube to collect and pipe sunlight to the lecture table. The light was trapped by the total internal reflection of the tube until the water jet, upon which edge the light incidented at a glancing angle, broke up and carried the light in a curved flow. Colladon reported this experiment to a wider audience in the Comptes rendus, the French Academy of Sciences' journal, in 1842.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Jean-Daniel Colladon?

Jean-Daniel Colladon is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of Geneva