Jean-Baptiste Biot

Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French physicist and mathematician known for his contributions to electromagnetism, particularly in understanding magnetic fields and currents. He is best remembered for formulating the Biot-Savart Law, which describes how electric currents generate magnetic fields. This law helps explain how magnets work and is fundamental in magnetostatics, the study of magnetic fields at rest. Biot's work laid important groundwork for the broader field of classical electromagnetism, connecting electricity and magnetism in a coherent way that is crucial for modern technology, such as motors and generators.