biography
| name: |
Plateau, Joseph Antoine Ferdinand
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pronunciation:
[platoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1801–83)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Brussels, Belgium. He was professor of physics at Ghent from 1835. In his study of optics he damaged his eyesight by looking into the Sun for 20 seconds in order to find out the effect on the eye. By 1840 he was blind but, with help, continued his scientific work. He was the discoverer of the tiny second drop, named after him, which always follows the main drop of a liquid falling from a surface. |
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