References for Jean-Baptiste Biot

  1. M P Grosland, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

  1. Jean-Baptiste Biot, La grande encyclopédie (Paris, 1885-1891).
  2. F Lefort, Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Biot (Paris, 1867).

Articles:

  1. C A St Beuve, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Nouvelles Lundis 2 (1864), 70-109.
  2. E Frankel, Career - making in post - revolutionary France : the case of Jean-Baptiste Biot, British J. Hist. Sci. 11 (37) (1) (1978), 36-48.
  3. T Hashimoto, Ampère vs. Biot : two mathematizing routes to electromagnetic theory, Historia Sci. 24 (1983), 29-51.
  4. C E Picard, La vie et l'oeuvre de Jean-Baptiste Biot, Éloges et discours académique (Paris, 1931), 221-287.

January 1997

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