Jean-Antoine Nollet
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1770
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: France
languages spoken, written or signed: French
educated at: Collège de Beauvais
occupation: physicist, university teacher, Catholic priest
award received: Fellow of the Royal Society
position held: deacon
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 with electricity and discovered osmosis. As a deacon in the Catholic Church, he was also known as Abbé Nollet. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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