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...

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...

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...