Jean-Baptiste Biot
French scientist (1774-1862) · France · Scientists · Died at 87
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Something wrong?He proved rocks fall from the sky - at a time when the Paris Academy thought farmers who reported meteorites were just confused.
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Biot and Gay Lussac plate 1804 - Udvar-Hazy Center.jpg?width=1200)
Early flight 02561u (5)
Appareil Biot schema
Appareil de Biot
Biot polariscope, E. M. Clarke, London, 1844 - Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra - University of Coimbra - Coimbra, Portugal - DSC09073
Biot, Jean Baptiste - Notions élémentaires de statique, 1829 - BEIC 12147982
Ca Biot i Aragó, construcció de pedra seca al MontgóAwards
In their orbit
About this person
Jean-Baptiste Biot was born on 21 April 1774 in France, entering a century that would break open questions of light, magnetism, and the cosmos. With Félix Savart he co-discovered the Biot-Savart law, anchoring the young field of magnetostatics. He made an early balloon ascent to study the atmosphere from above, and turned his attention to polarized light, tracing how it bent and twisted through materials. His insistence that meteorites were real - extraterrestrial stone, not terrestrial delusion - eventually moved the scientific establishment. He died on 3 February 1862, his name carried forward in a unit of current, a dark mica mineral, and a cape on Greenland's frozen edge.
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