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Jean-Antoine Nollet
French physicist (1700–1770)
Jean-Antoine Nollet (French:[ʒɑ̃ɑ̃twannole];[1] 19 November 1700 – 25 April 1770)[2] was a French clergyman and physicist who did a number of experiments with electricity and discovered osmosis.
As a deacon in the Catholic Church,[2] he was also known as Abbé Nollet.
Biography
Nollet studied humanities at the Collège de Clermont in Beauvais, starting in 1715. He completed a master's degree in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Paris in 1724.
In , the celebrated French physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet set out on a journey through Italy to solve an international controversy over the medical uses of.He was ordained a deacon in the Catholic Church in 1728, but suspended his clerical career.[2] However he used the title of Abbé throughout his life. Nollet was particularly interested in the new science of electricity.
He joined the Société des Arts in 1728, an association which was reestablished from a previous version which ended in 1723. Formed under the patronage of Comte de Clermont, the Société focused on