Jean-Baptiste Biot (21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who co-discovered the Biot-Savart law of magnetostatics, established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.
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21 April 1774 Paris
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3 February 1862 (aged 87) Paris
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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