Research topic: Jean Antoine Nollet

Jean Antoine Nollet , 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 of a continuous flow of electrical matter between charged bodies. Nollet was the first professor of experimental physics at the Univ. of Paris. Author not available, NOLLET, JEAN ANTOINE. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more