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Joseph Plateau

1801 - 1883

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Plateau has received more than 1,283,203 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Joseph Plateau is the 253rd most popular physicist (down from 208th in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 111th 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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  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.41

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  • 2.94

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Joseph Plateau ranks 253 out of 717. Before him are Georg Bednorz, John B. Goodenough, David J. Wineland, Theodor W. Hänsch, Yoichiro Nambu, and Serge Haroche. After him are Gérard Mourou, Klaus Fuchs, Daniel Rutherford, Osborne Reynolds, Anthony James Leggett, and John Cockcroft.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Joseph Plateau ranks 11. Before him are Frédéric Bastiat, John of Saxony, Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, John Henry Newman, and Johannes Peter Müller. After him are Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Joseph Lanner, Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Princess Sophie of Sweden, and Prince Charles of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1883, Joseph Plateau ranks 13. Before him are Henri, Count of Chambord, Midhat Pasha, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, and Eva Gonzalès. After him are Dayananda Saraswati, Thomas Mayne Reid, Prince Charles of Prussia, Pierre Auguste Cot, Friedrich von Flotow, and Alexander Gorchakov.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Joseph Plateau ranks 132 out of 1,019. Before him are Auguste Perret (1874), Luce Irigaray (1930), Adriaen Brouwer (1605), Pierre Louÿs (1870), Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (1903), and David Teniers the Younger (1610). After him are André Grétry (1741), Petrus Plancius (1552), Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502), Jean-Marie Pfaff (1953), Marc Dutroux (1956), and Marie of Brabant, Queen of France (1254).

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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 Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763), Théophile de Donder (1872), and Léon Rosenfeld (1904).

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