Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
French physicist
Died when: 60 years 247 days (728 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (/'p?ltie?/;French: [p?ltje]; 22 February 1785 – 27 October 1845) was a French physicist.He was originally a watch dealer, but at the age of 30 began experiments and observations in physics.
Peltier was the author of numerous papers in different departments of physics.His name is specially associated with the thermal effects at junctions in a voltaic circuit, the Peltier effect.
Peltier introduced the concept of electrostatic induction (1840), based on the modification of the distribution of electric charge in a material under the influence of a second object closest to it and its own electrical charge.
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