Joseph Plateau
Belgian physicist (1801–1883) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf ɑ̃twan fɛʁdinɑ̃ plato]; 14 October 1801 – 15 September 1883) was a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image.[2] To do this, he used counterrotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistiscope.
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Joseph Plateau | |
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Born | (1801-10-14)14 October 1801[citation needed] |
Died | 15 September 1883(1883-09-15) (aged 81) |
Nationality | Belgian |
Alma mater | University of Liège |
Known for | Physics of soap bubbles (Plateau's laws), Plateau's problem |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Ghent University |
Doctoral advisor | Adolphe Quetelet |
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