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Jean-Baptiste Biot

1774 - 1862

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Jean-Baptiste Biot (; French: [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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste Biot is the 156th most popular physicist (down from 108th in 2019), the 510th most popular biography from France (down from 473rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Physicist.

Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French physicist who is most famous for his work in the field of optics. He was also a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jean-Baptiste Biot ranks 156 out of 851. Before him are George Paget Thomson, Walter Houser Brattain, Henry Moseley, Laura Bassi, John Kendrew, and Javier Solana. After him are Frits Zernike, Felix Bloch, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Johann Jakob Balmer, Joseph Henry, and Hippolyte Fizeau.

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Among people born in 1774, Jean-Baptiste Biot ranks 3. Before him are Caspar David Friedrich, and Daniel D. Tompkins. After him are Anne Catherine Emmerich, Auguste de Marmont, Francis Beaufort, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Gaspare Spontini, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, and Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. Among people deceased in 1862, Jean-Baptiste Biot ranks 6. Before him are Martin Van Buren, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Colt, and John Tyler. After him are Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Fromental Halévy, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Božena Němcová, James Clark Ross, and Princess Maria Antonia Koháry.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Biot ranks 510 out of 6,770. Before him are Louise Élisabeth of France (1727), Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (1781), Adolphe Adam (1803), Jacques Prévert (1900), William of Rubruck (1220), and Étienne de La Boétie (1530). After him are Carus (230), Christine Lagarde (1956), Frédéric Bazille (1841), Camille Desmoulins (1760), René Laennec (1781), and Gregory of Tours (538).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jean-Baptiste Biot ranks 17. Before him are François Arago (1786), Albert Fert (1938), Alfred Kastler (1902), Hans Bethe (1906), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), and Louis Néel (1904). After him are Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Paul Langevin (1872), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Edme Mariotte (1620), and Jacques Charles (1763).

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