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Joseph Plateau
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this, he used inverted discs with images repeatedly drawn in small movements on one and evenly spaced slits on the other. From 1832, he called this device the phenakistiscope.
BornOctober 14, 1801, Brussels, French Republic
DiedSeptember 15, 1883, Ghent, Belgium
NationalityBelgian
InstitutionsGhent University
Alma materUniversity of Liège
Known forPhysics of soap bubbles (Plateau's laws), Plateau's problem

About Joseph Plateau

Physicist Joseph Plateau was born on October 14, 1801 in Belgium (He dies at the age of 81, on September 15, 1883).

Belgian physicist who demonstrated the illusion of motion with his apparatus, the phenakistoscope, and so took the first step toward generating movies. He was also an experimental physics professor at Ghent University.

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Joseph Plateau before becoming famous

Joseph Plateau was born in the Zodiac sign Libra (The Scales), and 1801 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Rooster (雞).

He could read and write at the age of six and was regarded a child genius.

Achievement of Joseph Plateau

To illustrate that images linger on the retina for a short time after they change, he devised a device that consisted of two counter rotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits on the other.

Joseph Plateau's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

His father was a great flower painter who was well-known in the community.

Joseph Plateau Collabed with

Some of Inventor Thomas Edison's discoveries were used in the creation of his moving-picture machine.

Joseph Plateau Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Joseph Plateau updated on March 22 2023.