Gaston Planté
Raymond Louis Gaston Planté (born April 22, 1834 in Orthez , † May 21, 1889 in Paris ) was a French physicist and paleontologist.
He began his career as an assistant at the Paris Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers and later became a professor at the Association Polytechnique . In 1859 he invented the lead-acid battery as the first rechargeable battery ( lead accumulator ). However, another twenty years passed before it could be used for industrial purposes. The cells found a well-known application in the first "officially" recognized electric vehicle, the Trouvé Tricycle 1881 by Gustave Trouvé in Paris.
Planté also worked as a paleontologist . In 1855 he found the first fossils of the Gastornis (Gastornis parisiensis) near Paris.
literature
- Planté, Raymond-Louis-Gaston. In: Kevin Desmond: Innovators in Battery Technology: Profiles of 95 Influential Electrochemists , McFarland, 2016, ISBN 978-0-7864-9933-5 , pp. 167-171
- K. Jäger, F. Heilbronner (ed.): Lexikon der Elektrotechniker , VDE Verlag, 2nd edition from 2010, Berlin / Offenbach, ISBN 978-3-8007-2903-6 , p. 338
- Isaac Asimov: Biographical Encyclopedia of Natural Sciences and Technology , Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-451-16718-2 , pp. 332–333
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Planté, Gaston |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Planté, Raymond Louis Gaston |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French physicist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orthez |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 1889 |
| Place of death | Paris |