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Jean-Baptiste Biot

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Jean-Baptiste Biot

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3 Feb 1862 (aged 87)
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Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France Add to Map
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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.
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.

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