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Name: Jean-Baptiste Biot
Birth Date: 1774
Death Date: 1862
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: physicist

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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Biot
544 words, approx. 2 pages
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the most avidly debated topic among scientists worldwide was the nature of light: was it a beam of flowing particles, a theory which had become generally accepted, or could there be truth in...


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Jean Baptiste Biot Summary
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1774-1862 French Physicist Jean Baptiste Biot is perhaps best described as a polymath who made important contributions to acoustics, optics, and electromagnetic theory during a career that also included significant work in astronomy, geodesy, and many...
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Jean-Baptiste Biot (April 21 1774, Paris – February 3 1862, Paris) was a French physicist, astronomer and mathematician. In the early 1800s, he studied the polarisation of light passing through chemical solutions, as well as the relationship...


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Canadian Speeches
Celebrating St. Jean Baptiste Day.
06/01/1996: 1,157 words, approx. 4 pages
Quebecers have been energetically celebrating St. Jean Baptiste Day with enthusiasm for 164 years, passionately promoting French-Canadian nationalism. Excerpts from two Quebec newspapers describe how it was celebrated in an earlier era. From The Morning Chronicle, Quebec City, June 25, 1873. ...
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Jean Baptists Huet and the decorative arts.
08/01/2002: 2,281 words, approx. 8 pages
The last detailed monograph about the French painter Jean Baptiste Huet was published in 1892. (1) Now, more than a century later, after much research in the Archives nationales in Paris and the compilation of a catalogue of his drawings and paintings, it...
 


 

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