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Louis Essen
English physicist who invented the caesium atomic clock and determined the speed of light (1908-1997)
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Lived 1908–1997, aged 89United Kingdom
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Louis Essen OBE FRS was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light. He was a critic of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, particularly as it related to time dilation.
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