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La Porcherie
La
Porcherie
is a
commune
in the
Haute-Vienne
department
in the
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
region
in west-central
France
.
Notable
people
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval
:
French
physician
and
physicist
,
born
in
Château
de la
Borie
, in La Porcherie;
inventor
of the
moving-coil
D'Arsonval galvanometer
and 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
19th century
.
