In which area did this French engineer and physicist, whose name became synonymous to one of a series of concentric prolate ellipsoidal regions of space between and around a transmitting antenna and a receiving antenna system, contribute significantly?
Augustin-Jean Fresnel Augustin-Jean Fresnel ( ; ] ; 10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827) was a French engineer and physicist who contributed significantly to the establishment of the theory of wave optics. Fresnel studied the behaviour of light both theoretically and experimentally.
Nicole El Karoui Nicole El Karoui is a French-Tunisian mathematician, and pioneer in the development of mathematical finance, born May 29, 1944, in Paris (maiden name "Nicole Schvartz"). She is considered to be one of the very active mathematicians that started heavily promoting financial mathematics in France and trained many engineers and scientists to this field.