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Jean-Baptiste Biot (a really really old geezer)

For your amusement, I just came across an astounding item. One I wasn't
aware of, probably some of you already know this.

Biot of the Biot and Savart law lived to be 118 years Old!!!

(And who says E&M isn't good for you).

I saw this in two sources.
One of which is

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02576a.htm

The other is a footnote in the new E&M book by Pollack & Stump

The Universe never ceases to amaze.

Joel