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JEAN ANTOINE NOLLET (1700-1770)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 735 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN
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ANTOINE
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NOLLET (1700-1770)  ,
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French physicist, of
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peasant origin, was
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born near
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Noyon (
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Oise) on the 19th of
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November 1700 . He entered
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holy orders and ultimately attained the
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rank of
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abbe; but his tastes all
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lay in the direction of experimental
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research, especially on the subject of
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electricity . In 1 734 he was admitted a member of the
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London Royal Society, four years later he entered the
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Academy of Sciences at
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Paris, and in 1753 he was appointed to the newly-instituted
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chair of experimental physics in the
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College de
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Navarre . In addition to many
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memoirs he wrote Lecons de physique experimentale (1743), Essai sur l'electricite
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des
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corps (1747), Recherches sur
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les causes partiallib-es des phenomenes electriques (1749 and 1754), Recueil de lettres sur l'electricite (1753), L'
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Art de faire les chapeaux (1764) and L'Art des experiences (1770) . He died at Paris on. the 24th of
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April 1770 .

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