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Half length portrait of a man, Leon Foucault, with dark moustache, right shoulder towards the camera. He sits in a chair with an upholstered back and arms. His left hand is inside his jacket, his right hand on his lap. He wears a dark jacket with broad lapels and cuffs, over white shirt and a dark neck-tie. Flesh is hand coloured. Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light,discovered eddy currents, and is credited with naming the gyroscope (although he did not invent it).