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Joseph Plateau
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. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistiscope.
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Born 14 October 1801 · Died 15 September 1883 · Q379993
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2026· 1 entry
2019· 1 entry
Newsweek: Joseph Plateau: Google Doodle Honors Belgian Scientist Who Invented Phenakistiscope – The Beginning of Motion Picture
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1883· 1 entry
Died 1883-09-15.
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1872· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order of Leopold (1872).
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1871· 1 entry
Who became his collaborator and later his first biographer
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1870· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1870).
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1868· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1868).
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1859· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Order of Leopold (1859).
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1841· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Order of Leopold (1841).
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1835· 1 entry
Was appointed Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at the State University in Ghent
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1832· 1 entry
Plateau invented an early stroboscopic device, the "phenakistiscope", the first device to give the illusion of a moving image
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1829· 2 entries
Studied at University of Liège, Doctor of Philosophy (1822–1829).
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Plateau submitted his doctoral thesis to his mentor Adolphe Quetelet for advice
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1827· 1 entry
Plateau became a teacher of mathematics at the "Atheneum" school in Brussels
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1822· 1 entry
Studied at Jules Bordet Royal Athenaeum (1817–1822).
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1817· 1 entry
Studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (1814–1817).
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1801· 1 entry
Born 1801-10-14.
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