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Émile Verdet Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
Émile Verdet studied optics and magnetism, particularly the Faraday effect. A magnetic field along the propagation direction changes the orientation of linearly polarized light. In a uniform sample the measured optical rotation is written , where is the longitudinal magnetic flux density, the path length, and the Verdet constant at the specified wavelength and temperature. The coefficient links an angular optical measurement with the material's magneto-optical response.[ref]
Émile Verdet, ENS library record. Biographical description: research on optics, magnetism and Faraday rotation; named constant; modern uniform-sample notation
A physicist.[ref]
https://lucienne.ens.psl.eu/s/lucienne/item/264170. Independent biographical source: physics; optics and magnetism
Portrait of Émile Verdet
. Bibliothèque nationale de France; portrait reproduced in the 1872 collected works of Émile Verdet. Public domain artwork; faithful reproduction identified as public domain by Wikimedia Commons. Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.