Died 1862-02-03.
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Jean-Baptiste Biot
Jean-Baptiste Biot 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.
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science · French physicist (1774–1862) · mathematician · physicist · astronomer · civil engineer · professor · also Jean-Baptiste Biot, Jean Baptiste Biot, Biot
Born 21 April 1774 · Died 3 February 1862 · Q58328
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1862· 1 entry
1856· 1 entry
Career landmark: seat 12 of the Académie française (1856–1862).
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1850· 3 entries
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1850).
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Jean-Baptiste Biot published in the Journal des savants a 7-page memoir from his recollections of the period of the late 1790s and early 1800s concerning his encounters with Laplace
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And his father made extraordinary efforts to ready for publication the second half of Edouard's last book, a reference translation of the Chinese classic Tcheou-li
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1849· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1849).
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1840· 2 entries
Won Rumford Medal (1840).
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Awarded by the Royal Society in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter
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1832· 1 entry
Jean Baptiste Biot discovered the physical properties of cream of tartar
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1822· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1822).
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1815· 3 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1815).
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Was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London, in 1816 a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and 1822 a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Demonstrated that "polarized light, when passing through an organic substance, could be rotated clockwise or counterclockwise, dependent upon the optical axis of the material
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1814· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1814).
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1812· 1 entry
Biot turned his attention to the study of optics, particularly the polarization of light
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1804· 1 entry
Used lines of equal magnetic field intensity in an article authored together with the Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt
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1803· 2 entries
Very few truly believed that rocks found on Earth could have extraterrestrial origins
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Biot was sent by the Académie française to report back on 3000 meteorites that fell on L'Aigle, in Normandy, France (see L'Aigle (meteorite))
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1797· 1 entry
Studied at École polytechnique (1794–1797).
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1794· 1 entry
Studied at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1794–1794).
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1791· 1 entry
Studied at Collège Louis-le-Grand (Paris) (1791).
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1774· 1 entry
Born 1774-04-21.
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