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  1. Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French mathematician who worked in astronomy, elasticity, electricity and magnetism, heat, optics and geometry.

  2. Mar 1, 2019 · Jean-Baptiste Biot was a physicist and mathematician who made advances in geometry, astronomy, elasticity, magnetism, heat, and optics. For his work on the polarization of light passing through chemical solutions, Biot received the Rumford Medal from the Royal Society in 1840.

  3. Jean Baptiste Biot is perhaps best described as a polymath who made important contributions to acoustics, optics, and electromagnetic theory during a career that also included significant work in astronomy, geodesy, and many other fields. In 1803 he helped confirm that meteorites are of extraterrestrial origin, and in 1804 made a balloon ascent ...

  4. Dec 3, 2015 · Jean Baptiste Biot was born in Paris, France on April 21, 1774 and died on February 3, 1862 when he was 88 years old in Paris. He started his study from the College of Louis-le-Grand and then joined army in 1793. He left the service to finish his education at École Polytechnique in 1794.

  5. Jean-Baptiste Biot, founder of the scientific study of meteorites. Simon Mitton. Four years ago, when I began to write From Crust to Core, A chronicle of deep carbon science, the astrophysicist in me looked forward to documenting the story of how Earth’s carbon originated long ago in stellar explosions.

  6. Dec 24, 2016 · Jean-Baptiste Biot’s achievements in optics, geodesy, and geophysics improved the scientific grounding of astronomy. He proved the extraterrestrial origin of the meteorites and helped to unify the precise mathematics of astronomy with the experimental techniques of physics. Biot’s father Joseph, a Parisian bourgeois, wanted him to go into commerce.

  7. Jean-Baptiste Biot was a physicist and mathematician who made advances in geometry, astronomy, elasticity, magnetism, heat and optics. For his work on the polarization of light passing through chemical solutions, Biot received the Rumford Medal from the Royal Society in 1840.

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