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Jean-Baptiste Biot

Jean-Baptiste Biot Jean-Baptiste Biot (; ; 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. Provided by Wikipedia
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Mémoire sur divers points d'astronomie ancienne : et en particulier, sur la période Sothiaque, comprenant 1460 années juliennes de 365j-1/4 /
Mémoire sur divers points d'astronomie ancienne : et en particulier, sur la période Sothiaque, comprenant 1460 années juliennes de 365j-1/4 /

: At head of title : Institut royal de France. Académie des sciences. : 161 pages, 3 folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Biot, Jean-Baptiste, 1774-1862
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