Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval

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Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (June 8 1851 - December 13 1940) was born in La Porcherie and was a French biophysicist and inventor of the moving-coil galvanometer and probably of the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century.

In 1881, d'Arsonval proposed tapping the thermal energy of the ocean. But it was d'Arsonval's student, Georges Claude who actually built the first OTEC plant in Cuba in 1930.

See also

• Oudin coil

Further reading

• Culotta, Charles A. (1970). "Arsonval, Arsène D'". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 302-305. ISBN 0684101149.