Justin-Mirande René Benoit
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Justin-Mirande René Benoit
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Justin-Mirande René Benoit or Jean-René Benoit was a French physicist who was involved in establishing metric standards as director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures from 1889 to 1915. He was involved in moving from a physical definition of the unit of length to one based on the wavelength of light. Benoit was born in Montpellier where his father, Justin Benoit, was dean of the medicine school. He too studied medicine but moved to study physics at the École des Hautes Études, e
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French physicist (1844–1922)
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