What accomplishment is Cape Biot named for?
Biot's work in astronomy
Biot's work in physics
Biot's work in mathematics
Biot's life and contributions as a whole
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Cape Biot is named for Jean-Baptiste Biot, a French physicist and mathematician who made significant contributions to the field of optics. Biot is best known for his work on polarization, which he studied extensively in the early 1800s. He also made important contributions to the study of magnetism, and he developed a method for measuring the magnetic properties of materials.
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