Jean-Baptiste Biot

Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and civil engineer. He was educated at the École polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. Biot worked for the Collège de France, the French Revolutionary Army, and the Bureau des Longitudes. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Société Philomathique de Paris, the Académie Française, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

His notable works include the Biot-Savart law and the Biot number for heat transfer. He authored texts such as *Etudes sur l'astronomie indienne et sur l'astronomie chinoise* and *Analyse du Traite de méchanique céleste de P.S. Laplace*. Biot received the Rumford Medal, the Commander of the Legion of Honour, and the Knight of the Legion of Honour. He was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Born in Paris in 1774, Biot died there on February 3, 1862. He is buried in Montparnasse Cemetery. His doctoral student was Louis Pasteur, and he had a child named Édouard Biot. Biot wrote in French and spoke the language. His works are recognized in the collections of the Royal Society, the Académie Française, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.