births
April 21, 1774
Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (died 1862)
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.