Jean-Baptiste Biot Summary

Jean Baptiste Biot 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 care... Read more

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 beco... Read more