alleryStart learning →Which Italian scientist coined the word diffraction in the 1600s?
AFrancesco Grimaldi
BGalileo Galilei
CGiovanni Cassini
DVincenzo Viviani
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Francesco Grimaldi
Grimaldi made the first accurate records of light bending around obstacles and named the effect.
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