Jean-Baptiste Biot
Jean-Baptiste Biot 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.
Background
- Born in
- Paris
- Educated at
- Collège Louis-le-Grand (Paris)École Nationale des Ponts et ChausséesÉcole polytechnique
- Awards
- 🏆 Rumford Medal🏆 Commander of the Legion of Honour🏆 Knight of the Legion of Honour🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society🏆 Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Gaspard Monge🎓 Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Louis Pasteur
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1774
Born
Birth1862
Died
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