Babinet

/ babɪnɛ /

noun

BabinetJacques17941872MFrenchSCIENCE: physicist Jacques (ʒɑk) 1794–1872, French physicist, noted for his work on the diffraction of light

In the opinion of M. Babinet, the phenomena of the tables offer no difficulty whatever!

We are fain to believe that M. Babinet himself has little doubt about his "impossibility."

What an admirable face Father Babinet, member of the reading committee of the Odon, will have!

It became a very interesting question with them who this M. Babinet might be.

Babinet had tried another form of the experiment previously.

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