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==Scientific Contributions== | ==Scientific Contributions== | ||
===Biot-Savart Law=== | ===Biot-Savart Law=== | ||
Jean-Baptiste Biot discovered Biot-Savart Law with Felix Savart in 1820. In electromagnetism, Biot-Savart Law relates magnetic fields to the electric current. | Jean-Baptiste Biot discovered Biot-Savart Law with Felix Savart in 1820. In electromagnetism, Biot-Savart Law relates magnetic fields to the electric current or moving charge. Moving charges or electric currents create curly magnetic fields around the path. | ||
===Saccharimetry=== | ===Saccharimetry=== | ||
He also formulated Saccharimetry. | He also formulated Saccharimetry. | ||
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Personal Life
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. Later, he was appointed as a professor at the University of Beauvais in 1797. In 1800, he came back to Paris as a mathematical physics professor at Collège de France and was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1803. He was also elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He had a single son, Édouard Constant Biot, in 1803. His son died in 1850. Jean Baptiste Biot was very religious throughout his life. He studied astronomy, elasticity, electricity, magnetism, heat and optics.
Scientific Contributions
Biot-Savart Law
Jean-Baptiste Biot discovered Biot-Savart Law with Felix Savart in 1820. In electromagnetism, Biot-Savart Law relates magnetic fields to the electric current or moving charge. Moving charges or electric currents create curly magnetic fields around the path.
Saccharimetry
He also formulated Saccharimetry.