Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun foucault

1 sense of foucault

Sense 1
Foucault, Jean Bernard Leon Foucault -- (French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air; invented the Foucault pendulum and the gyroscope (1819-1868))
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)