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Fraunhofer is credited not with discovering the single slit diffraction, but with explaining the far-field diffraction pattern from a single slit. Fresnel explained the near-field pattern before him, in 1815, but he was not the discoverer either.
The discovery of diffraction and the introduction of the term are due to Grimaldi, specifically his Physico-...
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