Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval
French physicist and physician (1851-1940) · France · On the map · Scientists · Died at 89
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval was a French physician, physicist and inventor of the moving-coil d'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter.
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1940Died31 December 19401934Great Gold medal of the Société d'Encouragement au ProgrèsAward1931Grand Cross of the Legion of HonourAward1900Honorary Member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt Am Main, Germany)Award1851Born8 June 1851
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D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century.
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Scientists
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Lived 1851 to 1940 · aged 89
