IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 AL6
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Biot, Jean-Baptise and Lefort, F: letters
Date(s): 1855-1863
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 29 items
Name of creator(s): Biot | Jean-Baptiste | 1774-1862 | scientist
Lefort | F | fl 1855-1863 | grandson-in-law of Jean-Baptiste Biot
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Jean-Baptiste Biot was born in Paris and educated at the Ecole Polytechnique. His fields of research included astonomy, the Earth's atmosphere, and light and optics, but he is best known for his work on electricity and magnetism; the Biot-Savart law in electromagnetics is named after him, and Felix Savart.
No information was available at the time of compilation.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
A collection of letters from Jean-Baptiste Biot and his grandson-in-law F Lefort, to Augustus De Morgan,1855-1863. Including related papers. Many of the letters refer to an article by Biot on Sir Isaac Newton in the Biographie Universelle.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: French and English
System of arrangement:
See hard copy catalogue.
Conditions governing access:
Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Please contact the University Archivist for details. 24 hours notice is required for research visits.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.
Finding aids:
Catalogue of the manuscripts and autograph letters in the University Library at the central building of the University of London (1921). A copy is available in the Library's Palaeography Room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
See archivist.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased in 1965.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of copies:
On negative microfilm - reference: MIC 242/2.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: July 2008