August 27, 2024 - 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.

In 1746 the abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet, a physicist who popularized science in France, discharged a Leyden jar in front of King Louis XV by sending current through a chain of 180 Royal Guards. In another demonstration, Nollet used wire made of iron to connect a row of Carthusian…

July 17, 2017 - Born as a peasant and educated within the church, Jean Antoine Nollet went by his ecclesiastical title of abbé. He became one of the most popular lecturers in Paris and was favoured among aristocratic audiences. Nollet’s books on the teaching of experimental physics are richly illustrated.

November 9, 2020 - He had discovered osmosis. Osmosis explains how kidneys clean our blood, how plants control photosynthesis and, in part, how cells control their internal environment. It has many more applications in biology, civil engineering and chemical engineering. History is fickle.

Soon love of science became uppermost and together with Dufay and Réaumur he devoted himself to the study of physics and especially to research work in electricity. Abbé Nollet was the first to recognize the importance of sharp points on the conductors in the discharge of electricity.

November 22, 2013 - The current report, associated ... of Abbé Nollet to the earliest understanding of the electrospray phenomenon. A description of his accomplishments is placed in the context of the societal and scientific developments of the "Age of Enlightenment" out of which Jean-Antoine Nollet ...

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March 21, 2022 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, often called the abbé Nollet, was a French experimental physicist, born on Nov. 19, 1700. Nollet gave an extremely popular lecture course in Paris for many years that was almost entirely devoted to experiments (see first image); he used over 350...

Jean Antoine Nollet (zhäN äNtwän´ nôlā´), 1700–1770, French clergyman, experimental physicist, and leading member of the Paris Academy of Science. He constructed one of the first electrometers and developed a theory of electrical attraction and repulsion that supposed the existence ...

One of the ablest experimental physicists and demonstrators of the eighteenth century. After studying theology, he turned to science, becoming assistant to two already famous scientists: Charles-François de Cisternay Dufay (1698-1739) and René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757).

Abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet (19 Dec 1700 - est.

Inscription: Written in graphite below image, at center: 'l'abbé Nollet', at right: 'Beauvarlet', above image, at right: 'p.

He was given the chair of experimental ... became associé there, 1742; pensionnaire, 1758; and was its directeur, 1761–62. Jean Torlais, Un Physicien du Siècle des Lumières: l’ Abbé Nollet, 1700–1770 (Paris, 1954)....

The electroscope - a device for detecting electric charge - was invented by Jean Nollet in 1748.