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 Paris | (aged 87)
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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