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  • 131Jean-Baptiste Biot —     Jean Baptiste Biot     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Jean Baptiste Biot     A physicist and mathematician, born at Paris, France, 21 April, 1774; died. there, 3 February, 1862. He studied at first at the College of Louis le Grand; in 1793 he… …

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  • 132Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — noun an international scientific body established in 1988 by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organisation to review and assess the most recent scientific, technical and socio economic information relating to… …