biography
pronunciation:
[savah(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1791–1841)
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| biography:
| Physician and physicist, born in Mézières, NC France. He taught physics in Paris, and invented Savart's wheel for measuring tonal vibrations, and the Savart quartz plate for studying the polarization of light. With Jean Baptiste Biot he discovered the law (named after them) governing the relationship of a magnetic field around a conductor to the current producing it. |
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