Jean-Baptiste Biot
Physicist, Academic
1774 – 1862
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Who was Jean-Baptiste Biot?
Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light. Biot also discovered the mineral biotite.
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- Born
- Apr 21, 1774
Paris - Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- École Polytechnique
- Lived in
- Paris
- Died
- Feb 3, 1862
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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