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Malus, Étienne Louis
 
 
(tyn´ lw mälüs´) (KEY) , 1775–1812, French artillery officer and physicist. In 1810 he stated his discovery of the polarization of light by reflection and published a memoir of his theory of double refraction.
 
 
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