Gabriel Lippmann
August 16, 1845 –July 12, 1921
Physicist, Inventor, Photographer, Professor
Lived 75 years
- Born in
- Bonnevoie
- Passed away in
- Atlantic Ocean
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann ( LIP-muhn; French: [ɡabʁijɛl lipman]; 16 August 1845 – 12 July 1921) was a French physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 for his invention of the Lippmann plate, a method of photographically reproducing colours based on the interference phenomenon.
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Progress Medal, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Jean Reynaud Prize Education: École Normale Supérieure, Lycée Henri-IV, University of Paris
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