Jean-Baptiste Biot
Jean-Baptiste Biot
Jean-Baptiste Biot
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a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who co-discovered the Biot–Savart law of magnetostatics with Félix Savart, established the reality of meteorites
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Born
21 April 1774 Paris
Died
3 February 1862 (aged 87) Paris
Nationality
French
Known for
Biot--Savart law
Fields
Physics, astronomy and mathematics
Alma mater
École Polytechnique
Awards
Rumford Medal (1840)
Academic advisors
Gaspard Monge
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France
era
1800+
Influenced
Louis Pasteur, William Ritchie