When was Jean-Baptiste Biot born?
21 April 1774
12 May 1784
5 June 1767
10 July 1790
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Jean-Baptiste Biot was born on 21 April 1774 in Paris, France. He was a physicist and mathematician who made important contributions to the fields of optics, electricity, and magnetism. He is best known for his work on the polarization of light, and for his discovery of the law of Biot-Savart, which describes the magnetic field around a current-carrying wire.
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