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Also known as Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau, Joseph-Antoine Plateau

Belgian physicist (1801–1883)

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Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (1801–1883) was a Belgian mathematician, physicist, and university teacher. Born in Brussels and deceased in Ghent, he worked in the field of theoretical physics. His notable works include Plateau's laws, Plateau's problem, the stroboscope, and the phénakistoscope. He served as a university teacher at Ghent University.

Plateau was educated at the University of Liège and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, with Adolphe Quetelet and Richard van Rees as his doctoral advisors. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony. He spoke and wrote in French.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1841
Died
1911
Works
28

Top works

  • Notice sur Charles Poelman
  • Recherches expérimentales sur la position du centre de gravité chez les insectes
  • Observations sur le phénomène de la constance chez quelques hyménoptères
  • Observations sur une grande scolopendre vivante
  • L'ablation des antennes chez les bourdons et les appreciations d'Auguste Forel

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Type
Group
Country
CA
Active from
1996

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection

    · 2016 · cited 40,158x

  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,397x

  3. Naturalistic inquiry

    · 1985 · cited 34,704x

  4. When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM

    · 2019 · cited 21,393x

  5. CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP

    · 1985 · cited 19,711x

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Key facts

Born
( 1801-10-14 ) 14 October 1801 , Brussels , French Republic
Died
15 September 1883 (1883-09-15) (aged 81), Ghent , Belgium
Alma mater
University of Liège
Known for
Plateau's laws , Plateau's problem , Plateau–Rayleigh instability
Institutions
Ghent University
Doctoral advisor
Adolphe Quetelet

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Biography

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