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Jean-Baptiste Biot

1774 - 1862

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Jean-Baptiste Biot (; French: [bjo]; 21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862) 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. The biot (a CGS unit of electrical current), the mineral biotite, and Cape Biot in eastern Greenland were named in his honour. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Biot has received more than 208,464 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Biot is the 108th most popular physicist (up from 138th in 2019), the 473rd most popular biography from France (up from 646th in 2019) and the 14th most popular French Physicist.

Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French physicist who is most famous for his work in the field of optics. He was also a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jean-Baptiste Biot ranks 108 out of 851. Before him are Dennis Gabor, François Arago, Willis Lamb, Owen Chamberlain, Roger Penrose, and Alfred Kastler. After him are Heinrich Rohrer, Ben Roy Mottelson, Hippolyte Fizeau, Peter Debye, Anders Jonas Ångström, and Joseph Henry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Jean-Baptiste Biot ranks 2. Before him is Caspar David Friedrich. After him are Auguste de Marmont, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Gaspare Spontini, Francis Beaufort, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, William Henry, and Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. Among people deceased in 1862, Jean-Baptiste Biot ranks 4. Before him are Martin Van Buren, Henry David Thoreau, and Samuel Colt. After him are John Tyler, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, James Clark Ross, Božena Němcová, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Fromental Halévy, and Karl Nesselrode.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Biot ranks 473 out of 6,770. Before him are Stephen, King of England (1095), Jacques Prévert (1900), Isabelle Adjani (1955), Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824), Alfred Kastler (1902), and René Guénon (1886). After him are Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636), Alfred de Musset (1810), Ambroise Paré (1510), Yves Klein (1928), Charles-Henri Sanson (1739), and Adolphe Adam (1803).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jean-Baptiste Biot ranks 14. Before him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Louis de Broglie (1892), Hans Bethe (1906), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), and Alfred Kastler (1902). After him are Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Paul Langevin (1872), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Jacques Charles (1763), Albert Fert (1938), and Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799).

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