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Brewster
David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish physicist, professor of physics at St. Amdrews College. Initially a minister in the Church of Scotland, Brewster became interested in optics, found the angle named after him, contributed also the dichroism, absorption spectra, and stereo-photography, invented the kaleidoscope, and wrote a book about it. 39
which regulate the polarization of light by
reflection from transparent bodies.”
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Malus
Etienne Louis Malus (1775-1812), French army officer and engineer. One evening in 1808 while standing near a window in his home in Paris, Malus was looking through a crystal of Iceland spar at he setting sun reflected in the windows across the street. As he turned the crystal about the line of sight, the two image of the sun seen through the crystal became alternately darker and brighter, changing every 90o of rotation. After this accidental observation Malus followed it up quickly by more solid experimental work and concluded that the light by reflection on the glass, became polarized.
