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Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval

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French physicist and physician (1851-1940)

FranceScientistsLived 1851 to 1940 · aged 89
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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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1934Great Gold medal of the Société d'Encouragement au Progrès
1931Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
1900honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

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Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval was a French physician, physicist and inventor of the moving-coil d'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. 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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France
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1851 to 1940 · aged 89
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25 languages

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