Jean antoine nollet biography of mahatma
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Jean-Antoine Nollet
Nollet, JEAN-ANTOINE, physicist, b.
at Pimpre, Oise, France, November 19, 1700; d.
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at Paris, April 25, 1770. His peasant parents sent him to study at Clermont and Beauvais. He went later to Paris to prepare for the priesthood. In 1728 he received the deaconship and applied immediately for permission to preach.
Soon love of science became uppermost and together with Dufay and Reaumur he devoted himself to the study of physics and especially to research work in electricity. Abbe Nollet was the first to recognize the importance of sharp points on the conductors in the discharge of electricity.
Honus Wagner: A Biography|Jeanne Burke Devaleria.This was later applied practically in the construction of the lightning-rod. He also studied the conduction of electricity in tubes, in smoke, vapors, steam, the influence of electric charges on evaporation, vegetation, and animal life.
His discovery of the osmosis of water through a bladder into alcohol was the starting-point of that branch of physics.
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