| Authorised form of name | Biot; Jean Baptiste (1774 - 1862); astronomer, mathematician and physicist |
| Dates | 1774 - 1862 |
| Nationality | French |
| Place of birth | Paris, France |
| Date of birth | 21 April 1774 |
| Place of death | Paris, France |
| Date of death | 03 February 1862 |
| Research field | Physics |
| Activity | Career:
Served in the Artillery; Professor of Mathematics, Beauvais (1797); Professor of Physics, College de France (1800); accompanied J L Gay Lussac (FRS 1815) on the first balloon ascent made for scientific purposes; involved with F J D Arago (FRS 1818) in measuring an arc of the meridien in Spain (1806); visited England and the Shetland Islands, to make measurements along the line of the British arc of the meridien (1817); made important observations on the polarisation of light
Memberships:
Academie des Sciences
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| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 06/04/1815 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1840 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1862-1863 vol 12 pp xxxv-xlii
References:
K K Schwarz, 'Faraday and Babbage' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp367-381 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/71428323 |
| Code | NA3671 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/000378 | Biot, Jean Baptiste | 1853 |
| MM/1/8 | Letter from John Dalton, Manchester, to Jean Baptiste Biot | 5 August 1833 |
| IM/005509 | Biot, Jean Baptiste | nd |
| MM/17/47 | Letter from John H Wilkinson to Herbert Rix, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society | 13 June 1895 |
| CB/1/1/260 | Letter from Jean-Baptiste Biot to Charles Blagden | 19 January 1806 |
| CB/1/1/267 | Draft of a letter from Charles Blagden to Jean-Baptiste Biot | 28 November 1815 |
| CB/1/1/262 | Letter from Jean-Baptiste Biot to Charles Blagden | 27 May 1806 |
| CB/1/1/218 | Letter from Claude Louis Berthollet, Arcueil to Charles Blagden | 3 April 1806 |
| CB/1/1/263 | Letter from Jean-Baptiste Biot to Charles Blagden | 20 April 1814 |
| CB/1/1/264 | Letter from Jean-Baptiste Biot to Charles Blagden | 10 May 1814 |
| CB/1/1/261 | Letter from Jean-Baptiste Biot to Charles Blagden | 23 May 1806 |
| MM/16/101 | Letter from J B Biot to C Blagden | 29 April 1816 |
| EC/1814/35 | Biot, Jean Baptiste: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/4/80 | Letter from [Jean Baptiste] Biot, Paris, to the Marquis of Northampton, President of the Royal Society | 20 July 1845 |
| MC/4 | Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1844-1850 |
| AP/32/3 | Unpublished paper, 'Notice sur [Joseph Louis] Gay-Lussac' [A notice on Gay-Lussac] by Jean Baptiste Biot | May 1850 |
| AP/66/12/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'On a possible geological origin of terrestrial magnetism' by Edward Hull | 1889 |
| AP/66/12 | Unpublished paper, 'On a possible geological origin of terrestrial magnetism' by Edward Hull | 1889 |