Liénard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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François Liénard de la Mivoye (1782–1862), French-Mauritian naturalist
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Édouard Liénard (1779–1848), French painter
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Alfred-Marie Liénard
Alfred-Marie Liénard (2 April 1869 in Amiens – 29 April 1958 in Paris), was a French physicist and engineer. He is most well known for his derivation of the Liénard–Wiechert potentials.
From 1887 to 1889 Liénard was a student at the Écol ...
(1869–1958), French physicist and engineer
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Michel Joseph Napoléon Liénard
Michel Joseph Napoléon Liénard (1810–1870) was a French sculptor and ornamentalist.
Works
Variants of the same fountain design were used by Liénard multiple times, with minor alterations:
* Brewer Fountain, Boston (Massachusetts, Unite ...
(1810–1870), sculptor from France
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Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu
Daniel Hyacinthe Liénard de Beaujeu (9 or 19 August 1711 – 9 July 1755) was a French officer during King George's War and the French and Indian War. He participated in the Battle of Grand Pre (1747). He also organized the force that attacked ...
, French officer during the Seven Years' War
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Liénard–Wiechert potential
The Liénard–Wiechert potentials describe the classical electromagnetic effect of a moving electric point charge in terms of a vector potential and a scalar potential in the Lorenz gauge. Stemming directly from Maxwell's equations, these descri ...
describes the electromagnetic effect of a moving electric charge
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Liénard equation In mathematics, more specifically in the study of dynamical systems and differential equations, a Liénard equation is a second order differential equation, named after the French physicist Alfred-Marie Liénard.
During the development of radio a ...
, type of differential equation, after the French physicist Alfred-Marie Liénard
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