Jean-Baptiste Biot
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Jean-Baptiste Biot | |
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 Jean-Baptiste Biot | |
| Born | 21 April 1774 Paris |
| Died | 3 Februar 1862 (aged 87) Paris |
| Naitionality | French |
| Kent for | Biot–Savart law |
| Awairds | Rumford Medal (1840) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pheesics, astronomy an mathematics |
| Influenced | Louis Pasteur, William Ritchie |
| Signatur |  |
Jean-Baptiste Biot (French: [bjo]) (21 Aprile 1774 – 3 Februar 1862) wis a French pheesicist, astronomer, an mathematician who established the reality o meteorites, made an early balluin flight, an studied the polarisation o licht. Biot an aa discovered the mineral biotite.
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