Gabriel Lippmann

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Gabriel Lippmann

Born August 16, 1845(1845-08-16)
Hollerich, Luxembourg
Died July 13, 1921 (aged 75)
SS France, Atlantic Ocean
Nationality France
Fields Physics
Institutions Sorbonne
Alma mater École Normale
Known for Colour photography
Lippmann plate
Lippmann electrometer
Notable awards Nobel Prize for Physics (1908)

Gabriel Jonas Lippmann (August 16, 1845 – July 13, 1921) was a Franco-Luxembourgian physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference, later known as the Lippmann plate.

He was born to Franco-Jewish parents in Hollerich, Luxemburg. When Gabriel was three, his family moved back to France, to live in Paris, where he was homeschooled.[1]

He is remembered for the innovations that resulted from his search for a direct color-sensitive medium in photography. He was one of the founders of the Institut d'optique théorique et appliquée in France. He also invented an electrometer that was used in the first ECG machine.

Lippmann was a member of the Academy of Sciences from 8 February 1886 until his death, including serving as its President in 1912.[2] In addition, he was a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London, a member of the Bureau des Longitudes,[1] and a member of the Grand Ducal Institute.

Lippmann married the daughter of novellist Victor Cherbuliez in 1888.[1] He died on 13 July 1921 aboard the steamer France while enroute from Canada.[3]


Early colour photograph of flowers by Lippmann
Early colour photograph of flowers by Lippmann


[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Gabriel Lippmann. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-02-12.
  2. ^ Les Membres de l'Académie des sciences depuis sa création (en 1666) (French). Académie des sciences. Retrieved on 2008-03-01.
  3. ^ Staff writers. "Gabriel Lippman Dies at Sea", The New York Times, 14 July 1921. Retrieved on 2008-03-01. 

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Nobel Laureates in Physics

Wilhelm Röntgen (1901) · Hendrik Lorentz / Pieter Zeeman (1902) · Henri Becquerel / Pierre Curie / Marie Curie (1903) · Lord Rayleigh (1904) · Philipp Lenard (1905) · J. J. Thomson (1906) · Albert Michelson (1907) · Gabriel Lippmann (1908) · Guglielmo Marconi / Ferdinand Braun (1909) · Johannes van der Waals (1910) · Wilhelm Wien (1911) · Gustaf Dalén (1912) · Kamerlingh Onnes (1913) · Max von Laue (1914) · W. L. Bragg / W. H. Bragg (1915) · Charles Barkla (1917) · Max Planck (1918) · Johannes Stark (1919) · Charles Guillaume (1920) · Albert Einstein (1921) · Niels Bohr (1922) · Robert Millikan (1923) · Manne Siegbahn (1924) · James Franck / Gustav Hertz (1925)
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NAME Lippmann, Gabriel Jonas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION French physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Hollerich, Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1921
PLACE OF DEATH Atlantic Ocean, travelling from Canada to France