Jean-Baptiste Biot
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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
Jean-Baptiste Biot
Biot in 1851
Notions élémentaires de statique, 1829
Essai de géométrie analytique, 1826
Ernst Chladni
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Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni was a German physicist and musician. His most important work, for which he is sometimes labeled the father of acoustics, included research on vibrating plates and the c
Jean-Baptiste Biot
…meteorite)). He found that the meteorites, called "stones" at the time, were from outer space. With his report, Biot helped support the German physicist Ernst Chladni's argument, published in 1794, that meteorites were debris from space. Prior to Biot's thorough investigation of the meteorites that fell near l'Aigle…
Echladni
Title page of a 1787 copy of "Entdeckungen über die Theorie des Klanges"
Chladni figure on a rectangular plate supported in center
Another mode of the same plate