Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval

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Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval
Born June 8, 1851
La Porcherie
Died December 13, 1940
Nationality French
Fields electrophysiology
Known for galvanometer
electrophysiology

Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (June 8, 1851 - December 13, 1940) was born in La Porcherie and was a French physician, physicist 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.

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