Biot, Jean Baptiste

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Ger. astron., Bessel s geoid, theory of errors, Bessel s functions Biot Jean Baptiste (1774-1862) Fr. phys., who invented polariscope, fundamental laws of heat, magnetism Black Joseph (1728-1799), Brit. chem.. (Glasgow and Edinburgh), helped to lay foundations for quantitative analysis, recognized that heat quantity is different... 

Biot, Jean-Baptiste (1774-1862) A French professor of mathematics, physics, and astronomy, he made the first balloon ascent ever undertaken for scientific purposes in 1804 together with loseph Lorris Gay-Lussac (1778-1850). He was particularly interested in the polarization of light and his observations laid the foundations of the polarimetric analysis of sugar. He evolved an experiment using a metal sphere and two metal hemispheres to show that there is no electric charge on the inside of a hollow charged conductor but instead it is all on the outside. 

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