Blondel may refer to:
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Apostilb The apostilb is an obsolete unit of luminance. The SI unit of luminance is the candela per square metre (cd/m2). In 1942 Parry Moon proposed to rename the apostilb the blondel, after the French physicist André Blondel. The symbol for the apostilb i ...
, an old unit of luminance
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Blondel (surname) Blondel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* André Blondel (1863–1938), French scientist and engineer
* Antoine Blondel (1795–1886), French politician
* David Blondel (1591–1655), French Protestant clergyman and scholar
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Blondel de Nesle
Blondel de Nesle – either Jean I of Nesle (c. 1155 – 1202) or his son Jean II of Nesle (died 1241) – was a French trouvère.
The name 'Blondel de Nesle' is attached to twenty-four or twenty-five courtly songs. He was identified in 1942, b ...
(c. 1155 – 1202), French trouvère, or poet
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Jean-François Blondel
Jean-François Blondel (1683 – 9 October 1756) was an 18th-century French architect.
Biography
Born in Rouen, Blondel was admitted in the Académie d'architecture in 1728.
He was the master and uncle of Jacques-François. He also had anoth ...
(1683–1756), French architect
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Maurice Blondel
Maurice Blondel (; 2 November 1861 – 4 June 1949) was a French philosopher, whose most influential works, notably ''L'Action'', aimed at establishing the correct relationship between autonomous philosophical reasoning and Christian belief.
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(1861–1949), French philosopher
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Vincent Blondel
Vincent Daniel Blondel (born April 28, 1965) is a Belgian professor of applied mathematics and current rector of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Blondel's researc ...
(born 1965), Belgian applied mathematician
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Amazing Blondel
Amazing Blondel are an England, English acoustic progressive folk band, containing Eddie Baird, John Gladwin, and Terry Wincott. They released a number of LPs for Island Records in the early 1970s. They are sometimes categorised as psychedelic ...
, an English progressive folk band
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''Blondel'' (album), a 1973 album by the band
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''Blondel'' (musical), a rock opera
See also
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Blondell Blondell is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Joan Blondell, American actress
*Gloria Blondell, American actress
*Ruby Blondell, classicist
*Tina Blondell, American artist
*Blondell Reynolds Brown, American po ...
, a surname and given name
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Blondeau Blondeau is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Auguste Blondeau (1786–1863), French violinist and composer
* Charles Bruno Blondeau (1835–1888), Canadian politician and contractor
* Gustav Blondeau (1871–1965), co ...
, a French surname
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Blondin (disambiguation)
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