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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1811, Joseph Fourier, the 43-year-old prefect of the French district of IsÄre, entered a competition ... submitted described a novel analytical technique that we today call the Fourier transform, and it won the competition; but the prize jury declined ... member of the academy, as late as the early 1970s, Fourier`s name still didn`t turn up in the major French encyclopedia the Encyclop ...
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