Jean-Baptiste Biot (21 April 1774 - 3 February 1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarisation of light.Read more
Jean-Baptiste Biot (21 April 1774 - 3 February 1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarisation of light.