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... Wikipedia
Born: October 14, 1801, Brussels, Belgium
Died: September 15, 1883 (age 81 years), Ghent, Belgium
Spouse: Augustine Thérèse Aimée Fanny Clavareau (m. 1840–1883)
Parents: Antoine Plateau
Alma mater: University of Liège
Doctoral advisor: Adolphe Quetelet