Gaston Planté

Raymond Louis Gaston Plante ( 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 of the Association Polytechnique. In 1859 he invented the lead-acid battery is the first rechargeable battery ( lead acid battery ). Up to an industrial use, however, was to be another twenty years. A known application experienced the cells in the first " officially " recognized electric vehicle, the Trouvé Gustave Trouvé 1881 by Tricycle in Paris.

Plante also worked as a paleontologist. So he found in 1855, the first fossils of Gastornis ( Gastornis parisiensis ) near Paris.

• Physicist (19th Century )
• Paleontologist
• Frenchman
• Personality of Electrical Engineering
• Born in 1834
• Died in 1889
• Man