Louis Albert Necker de Saussure FRSE MWS FGS (10 April 1786 – 20 November 1861) was a Swiss crystallographer and geographer. He is best remembered for...
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The Necker cube is an optical illusion that was first published as a rhomboid in 1832 by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker. It is a simple wire-frame...
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Necker was recalled to royal service. His dismissal on 11 July 1789 was a factor in causing the Storming of the Bastille. Within two days, Necker was...
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of Finance under Louis XVI Madame Necker (1737–1794), French-Swiss salonist and writer. Wife of Jacques Necker. Louis Albert Necker (1786–1861), Swiss...
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Albertine Necker de Saussure and her husband, Jacques Necker, had four children. One of them was crystallographer and geologist Louis Albert Necker, HFRSE...
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The Jacobite Attempt of 1719, SHS 1895, Introduction and p. 272 Louis Albert Necker, A voyage to the Hebrides, or western isles of Scotland;: with observations...
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Multistable perception Necker cube The Necker cube is an optical illusion first published in 1832 by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker. Numerosity adaptation...
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motion. Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker first publishes the optical illusion which becomes known as the Necker Cube. The first commutator DC...
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co-founder of the Red Cross Jacques Necker (1732–1804), banker and finance minister for Louis XVI of France Louis Albert Necker (1786–1861), a crystallographer...
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the great-grandson of Jacques Necker. After a brief diplomatic career at Madrid and Rome, upon the revolution of 1848 Albert de Broglie withdrew from public...
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