Charles louis chevalier biography of albert einstein

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Charles Louis Chevalier was a french physicist and optician. Made lots improvements in various mathematical and physical devices, especially in microscopes.

He was the first to produce microscopes with achromatic lenses (1823), introduced double lenses in telescopes (1834), and used such lenses with daguerreotype. He opened a photo studio in 1841in Paris.

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Background

Charles Louis Chevalier was born on April 19,1804 in Paris, France. He was born in the family of the famous optician Vincent Jacques-Louis-Chevalier (1770–1841) - the owner and head of an optical company founded in 1760.

Career

The company of Vincent (the father of Charles) and Charles Chevalier was famous for the achromatic lenses which were invented by father Vincent, and the lens/prism optics they both had invented for camera obscuras.

In 1825, the cousin of Nicéphore Niépce came to the Cheva