Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who co-discovered the Biot–Savart law of magnetostatics with Félix Savart, established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization... Wikipedia
Born: April 21, 1774, Paris, France
Died: February 3, 1862 (age 87 years), Paris, France
Education: École Polytechnique
Parents: Jeanne Decressy and Joseph Biot
Children: Édouard Biot
Awards: Pour le Mérite (1850); Rumford Medal (1840); ForMemRS (1815)