List of Famous people with last name Plateau

Joseph Plateau

First Name Joseph

Last Name Plateau

Born on October 14, 1801

Died on September 15, 1883 (aged 81)

Born in Belgium, Brussels-Capital Region

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 motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistiscope.

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Pierre Marie Léon Augustin Plateau

First Name Pierre

Last Name Plateau

Born on January 10, 1924

Died on April 26, 2018 (aged 94)

Born in France, Brittany

Pierre Marie Léon Augustin Plateau was a French Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Marius Plateau

First Name Marius

Last Name Plateau

Born on July 8, 1886

Died on January 22, 1923 (aged 36)

Born in France, Île-de-France

Marius Plateau was a French engineer, WWI sergeant, and French Royalist militant. Plateau was an editor of Action Francaise and a former secretary general of the Camelots du Roi. In 1923, Plateau was assassinated by the French anarchist Germaine Berton, who was later acquitted.

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