Jean-Baptiste Biot
1774 – 1862 · aged 88
French scientist (1774-1862)
- Born
- 21 Apr 1774 · Paris
- Died
- 3 Feb 1862 · Paris
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- 21 Apr 1774BornBorn in Paris
- 1793WarBattle of Hondschoote
- 1814AwardKnight of the Legion of Honour
- 1815AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1822AwardFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1840AwardRumford Medal
- 1849AwardCommander of the Legion of Honour
- 1850AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- 1856 – 1862RoleMember of the Académie française
- 3 Feb 1862DiedDied in Paris
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- 1789 – 1799French Revolution
- 1812 – 1815War of 1812
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
Biography
Jean-Baptiste Biot (French: [ʒɑ̃ batist bjo]; 21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who co-discovered the Biot–Savart law of magnetostatics with Félix Savart, established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.
The biot (a CGS unit of electrical current), the mineral biotite, and Cape Biot in eastern Greenland were named in his honour.
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