Biot , Jean-Baptiste , 1774-1862 , scientist Lefort , F , fl 1855-1863 , grandson-in-law of Jean-Baptiste Biot

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Biot , Jean-Baptiste , 1774-1862 , scientist Lefort , F , fl 1855-1863 , grandson-in-law of Jean-Baptiste Biot

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        Jean-Baptiste Biot was born in Paris and educated at the Ecole Polytechnique. His fields of research included astonomy, the Earth's atmosphere, and light and optics, but he is best known for his work on electricity and magnetism; the Biot-Savart law in electromagnetics is named after him, and Felix Savart.

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