Biography
In October 2001, people interested in science celebrated the 200th anniversary of Joseph Plato, Belgian physics invented by a stroboscope. In addition, he conducted experiments to clarify the peculiarities of visual perception and designed complex technical devices that were used by its followers to study optics and anamorphosis.Childhood and youth
Joseph Antoman Ferdinan Plateau was born on October 14, 1801 in the family of an artist Antoine, former by the Nationality of Belgian. Dreaming about the continuation of the study of color, he gave his son to primary school, and then identified in the Brussels Academy, where they were engaged in drawing and drawing.
However, the early biography of the boy was so far that at the age of 14, he remained at the care of the uncle after the death of mother and father. The lack of both favorite parents affected his mental and physical condition and demanded a long restoration in the estreria of a prosperous lawyer and a lawyer.
Interrupting learning to elegant arts, Joseph loved to watch the butterflies and with the help of multicolored watercolor paints endured their silhouettes on a special cardboard. Returning to the Academy in the mid-1810th, he completed an art education and decided to go to the school of the Royal Athena, in order to get a scientific diploma.
A talented and impressionable young man was lucky to become a student Adolf Ketle, who was known in Brussel's intelligent circles as a mathematician, a physicist and an astronomer. This young and highly qualified professor demonstrated a variety of experiences and experiments and highly appreciated the mind of the plateau, considering his favorite student.
Thanks to this relationship, Joseph received a good knowledge base that helped the further development and admission to the Liege State University. By studying literature and philosophy, as well as French and the right, the future experimental graduated with honors from the physico-mathematical faculty.
Personal life
Information about the personal life of the scientist turned out to be hidden from the public, but it is known that he had a wife and, at least two children. In 1844, when the Plateau left the post of Professor of the Gent University, the eldest son named Felix became his assistant in the realization of ideas.Physics
In the middle of 1824, the Plateau began a teacher's career and in parallel with work in high school was preparing to receive the degree of doctor of science. His first serious study was associated with the analysis of color perception based on experiments with different sectors fixed on a special disk.
The result of the experiment was the establishment of the ability of the eye to connect moving images during the time depending on how the penetration was and the drawn item was illuminated. Later, the identified pattern was called "Flushing Merge", and the device on which the experiments were conducted, became known as an antorthoscope.
In the late 1820s, without stopping at this innovative achievement, Joseph began to study the postings arising from the effects of light on the retina, as well as the ability to the eye to the resistance for the time limit specified in advance. In order to verify your own assumptions, he came out without protection for a bright sun and lost his view for a week, because he looked at him for a long time.
Embed from getty imagesWhen the vision began to return, the plateau published a scientific work and received a doctoral degree in 1829. And then he continued to set the duration of visual images and used for this design containing a black disk and a colored arc. Having established that the disappearance of the form requires a considerable amount of time, the scientist opened the line of the most "living" colors, but after this discovery health did not allow to stay in Liege, and he moved to the capital to the society of leading physicists.
According to the advice of a former teacher, Joseph returned to the study of the pictures and became the author of the stroboscopic method, who invented the apparatus of a fenakistiscope for experiments. This device consisted of two disks that had pictures and slits, which during synchronous rotation converted statics into a series of cartoons.
In the subsequent period of time, working as a teacher at the University of Ghent, the Plateau organized the laboratory where there were many bizarre devices. And finally blinded, he studied at home by research, the most famous of which were experiments with an oil drop.
Death
The last 40 years dedicated to the lives of the Life Plateau spent in His home in Ghent. Death due to an unspecified disease overtook him surrounded by the family. In mid-September 1883, the scientist was buried in the Mariosherka district, and the photographs of the experiments were given to private collections and museums.Inventions
- Anortoscope
- Stroboscope
- Tenakistiscopes
- Liquid rotation apparatus
- Device for examining the surfaces of the films
- Wire frames for learning thin films