Jean-Antoine Nollet (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan nole]; 19 November 1700 – 25 April 1770) was a French clergyman and physicist who did a number of experiments...
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quantification of the permeability of a material for a specific substance. Nollet tried to seal wine containers with a pig's bladder and stored them under...
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rancher and politician Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700–1770), French priest and physicist This page lists people with the surname Nollet. If an internal link...
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French architect and urban planner Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700–1770), French clergyman and physicist Jean-Antoine Panet (1751–1815), Canadian notary, lawyer...
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fields over a broader range of frequencies than mesh cages. In 1754, Jean-Antoine Nollet published an account of the cage effect in his Leçons de physique...
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by abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet. Nollet met Ardinghelli at conversazioni, hosted by her in Naples during his journey through Italy in 1749. Nollet, an acclaimed...
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since ancient times, e.g., on the construction of Egyptian pyramids. Jean-Antoine Nollet first documented observation of osmosis in 1748. The word "osmosis"...
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Floris Nollet (16 September 1794 – 11 January 1853) was a Belgian physicist, engineer, inventor. Nollet was a grandnephew of Jean-Antoine Nollet. He became...
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electricity were the result of the same phenomenon. Speculations of Jean-Antoine Nollet had led to the issue of the electrical nature of lightning being...
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Astereae within the family Asteraceae. The genus was named in honour of Jean-Antoine Nollet, French clergyman and physicist. Species Nolletia arenosa O.Hoffm...
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of his teachers were priests, such as Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet, Bishop of Limoges; the Abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet; and the Jesuit Guillaume-François Berthier...
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Jean-Antoine Nollet reproducing Stephan Gray's “electric boy” experiment, in which a boy hanging from insulating silk ropes is given an electric charge...
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Another important two-fluid theory from this time was proposed by Jean-Antoine Nollet (1745). Up until about 1745, the main explanation for electrical...
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dedicated attendants of the lectures by the abbot Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700–1770). In 1760, he succeeded Nollet to the chair of experimental physics at the...
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entomologist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, who was Musschenbroek's appointed correspondent at the Paris Academy. Abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet read this report...
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collection in Paris. Brisson abandoned zoology and in 1762 succeeded Jean-Antoine Nollet as professor of physics at the College of Navarre in Paris. For a...
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insulators (names applied by Desaguliers). Two French scientists, Abbe Nollet and C.F. du Fay, visited Gray and Wheler in 1732, saw the experiment, and...
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of Brandenburg-Schwedt, German nobleman (d. 1771) November 19 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770) November 21 – Charlotta Elisabeth...
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osmosis through semi-permeable membranes was first observed in 1748 by Jean-Antoine Nollet. For the following 200 years, osmosis was only a laboratory phenomenon...
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contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics; Noether's Theorem Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700–1770), France – Electroscope Wilhelm Normann (1870–1939), Germany...
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Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (died 1772) November 19 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French clergyman and physicist (died 1770) November 28 – Nathaniel...
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Archived from the original on 20 May 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2017. "Abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet Air Pump". waywiser.rc.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 31 May 2017.[dead...
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lawyer. Antoine Joseph was sent to school at the collèges des Grassins, followed by history and physics under M.M. Brisson and the abbot Nollet. His interest...
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Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1701) 1770 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French minister, physicist, and academic (b. 1700) 1800 – William...
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Oresme Jean-Antoine Nollet, appointed by the king to a professorship of experimental physics (the first in France) at the college in 1753. Armand Jean du...
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Beccaria, Francesco Algarotti, Roger Boscovich, Charles Bonnet, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Paolo Frisi, Lazzaro Spallanzani and Alessandro Volta. Voltaire...
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rubber, which eventually led to the invention of neoprene by DuPont Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700–1770) – abbot and physicist who discovered the phenomenon of...
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apparatus was illustrated by Jean-Antoine Nollet in Leçons de physique expérimentale (Paris, 1743–1748). In his description, Nollet claims to have merely altered...
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Eustache Le Sueur, French painter and educator (d. 1655) 1700 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French priest and physicist (d. 1770) 1711 – Mikhail Lomonosov,...
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Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (French: [ʒɑ̃ klod kamij fʁɑ̃swa vɑ̃ vaʁɑ̃bɛʁɡ], Flemish: [vɑɱ ˈvaːrə(m)bɛr(ə)x]; born 18 October 1960), known...
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