Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1774)

Jean-Baptiste Biot

French physicist (1774–1862)

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.