# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-plateau
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:59:03.159Z

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name: "Joseph Plateau"
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description: "Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. 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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birthDate: "1801-10-14"
deathDate: "1883-09-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump