1. Jean-Antoine Nollet studied humanities at the College de Clermont in Beauvais, starting in 1715.
13 Facts About Jean-Antoine Nollet
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Jean-Antoine Nollet completed a master's degree in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Paris in 1724.
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Jean-Antoine Nollet was ordained a deacon in the Catholic Church in 1728, but suspended his clerical career.
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Jean-Antoine Nollet was particularly interested in the new science of electricity.
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Jean-Antoine Nollet joined the Societe des Arts in 1728, an association which was reestablished from a previous version which ended in 1723.
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Jean-Antoine Nollet was a member of the Royal Society of London from 1734.
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Jean-Antoine Nollet is reputed to have given the name to the Leyden jar after it was invented by Pieter van Musschenbroek.
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Jean-Antoine Nollet held lectures aimed to popularise physics with the use of instruments.
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In 1746 Jean-Antoine Nollet gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them.
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Jean-Antoine Nollet then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.
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Jean-Antoine Nollet covered with pig bladder the mouth of a flask of ethanol, then submerged it in water.
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In 1750 Jean-Antoine Nollet was the first to report a phenomenon that is known today as electrostatic spraying.
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Jean-Antoine Nollet noted that water flowing from a vessel would aerosolize if the vessel was electrified and placed near electrical ground.