Joseph Plateau Scientist

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (14 October 1801 – 15 September 1883) was a Belgian physicist. He was the first person to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this he used counter rotating 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 phenakistoscope.

Personal facts

Birth date	October 14, 1801
Birth place	Brussels
Nationality	Belgium
Date of death	September 15, 1883
Place of death	Ghent
Education	University of Liège
Known for	Plateau's problem Soap bubble