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Joseph Plateau

Belgian physicist (1801-1883) · Belgium · On the map · Scientists · Died at 81

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.

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1883Died15 September 18831872Commander of the Order of LeopoldAward1870Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward1868Honorary Member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt Am Main, Germany)Award1859Officer of the Order of LeopoldAward1841Knight of the Order of LeopoldAward1801Born14 October 1801

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Commander of the Order of Leopold1872
Foreign Member of the Royal Society1870
Honorary Member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt Am Main, Germany)1868
Officer of the Order of Leopold1859
Knight of the Order of Leopold1841

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He called this device of 1832 the phenakistiscope.

Country
Belgium
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1801 to 1883 · aged 81

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