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Joseph Plateau

1801 - 1883

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Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (French: [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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Plateau is the 288th most popular physicist (down from 233rd in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 106th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belgian Physicist.

Joseph Plateau was a Belgian physicist who is most famous for his invention of the phenakistoscope.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Joseph Plateau ranks 288 out of 851. Before him are Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Peter Mansfield, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Antoine César Becquerel, Ash Carter, and Syukuro Manabe. After him are Charles Wheatstone, Ernest Walton, Lawrence M. Krauss, John Clauser, Anne L'Huillier, and Harry Daghlian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Joseph Plateau ranks 13. Before him are Johannes Peter Müller, Frédéric Bastiat, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Maria Theresa of Austria, and John Henry Newman. After him are Joseph Lanner, George Biddell Airy, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria, Princess Sophie of Sweden, and Vladimir Dal. Among people deceased in 1883, Joseph Plateau ranks 12. Before him are Emir Abdelkader, Henri, Count of Chambord, Dayananda Saraswati, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Midhat Pasha, and Charles II, Duke of Parma. After him are Eva Gonzalès, Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Thomas Mayne Reid, Pertevniyal Sultan, Arnold Toynbee, and Édouard Roche.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Joseph Plateau ranks 133 out of 1,190. Before him are Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (1724), Jacob Le Maire (1585), Godfried Danneels (1933), Gertrude of Nivelles (626), Godfrey I, Count of Louvain (1060), and Siger of Brabant (1240). After him are Luce Irigaray (1930), Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1787), Kevin De Bruyne (1991), Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders (1837), Ambiorix (-100), and Bavo of Ghent (589).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Belgium

Among physicists born in Belgium, Joseph Plateau ranks 3. Before him are Georges Lemaître (1894), and François Englert (1932). After him are Théophile de Donder (1872), Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763), Léon Rosenfeld (1904), and Conny Aerts (1966).

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