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MALUS, ETIENNE LOUIS (1775-1812)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 517 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR
MALUS, ETIENNE LOUIS (1775-1812) ,
French
  physicist, was born at Paris on the 23rd of June 1775. He entered the military engineering school at
Mezieres
 ; but, being regarded as a suspected person, he was dismissed without receiving a commission, and obliged to enter the army as a private soldier. Being employed upon the fortifications of Dunkirk, he attracted the notice of the director of the works, and was selected as a member of the Ecole polytechnique then to be established under G.
Monge
 . After three years at the Ecole he was admitted into the corps of engineers, and served in the army of the Sambre and Meuse; he was present at the passage of the Rhine in 1797, and at the affairs of Ukratz and Altenkirch. In 1798 he joined the Egyptian expedition and remained in the
East
  till 18or. On his return he held official posts successively at Antwerp, Strassburg and Paris, and devoted himself to
optical
  research. A
paper
  published in 1809 (" Sur une propriete de la lumiere reflechie par les corps diaphanes ") contained the discovery of the polarization of light by reflection, which is specially associated with his name, and in the following year he won a prize from the Institute with his memoir, " Theorie de la
double
  refraction de la lumiere dans les substances cristallines." He died of phthisis in Paris on the 23rd of
February
  1812.


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