Joseph Plateau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Plateau

Belgian physicist and mathematician

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1801

Place of Birth: Brussels metropolitan area, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 15-Sep-1883

Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher, academic

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (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.