What theory did Fresnel's work help disprove?
Newton's corpuscular theory
Einstein's theory of relativity
Bohr's atomic model
Maxwell's electromagnetic theory
Answer
Augustin-Jean Fresnel's work in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, which helped disprove Newton's corpuscular theory of light.
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