Joseph Plateau | |
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 Plateau in 1843 | |
| Born | 14 October 1801[1] |
| Died | 15 September 1883 (aged 81) |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Alma mater | University of Liège |
| Known for | Physics of soap bubbles (Plateau's laws), Plateau's problem |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Ghent University |
| Doctoral advisor | Adolphe Quetelet |
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf ɑ̃twan fɛʁdinɑ̃ plato]; 14 October 1801 – 15 September 1883) was a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image.[3] 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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- ^ "Goethe's Theory of Colours". theoryofcolor.org. Archived from the original on 8 October 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
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