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Gabriel Lippmann
Sign in to saveAlso known as Gabriel J. F. Lippmann, M. Lippmann, Joseph Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann, Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann
Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French (1845-1921)
Gabriel Lippmann was a Luxembourgish-born physicist who became a French citizen and made scientific contributions during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is historically significant enough to be remembered as a notable figure in physics, though his specific achievements warrant further study to understand his full impact on the field.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics1908
“for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference”
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gabriel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Luxembourg
- Place of birth
- Bonnevoie
- Place of death
- Atlantic Ocean
- Occupation
- professor
- Educated at
- University of Paris
- Employer
- University of Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Doctoral advisor
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Student of
- Joseph-Charles d'Almeida
- Field of work
- photography
- Image
- Gabriel Lippmann2.jpg
- Residence
- France
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Commons category
- Gabriel Lippmann
- date of birth
- 1845-08-16
- date of death
- 1921-07-13
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- name in native language
- Gabriel Lippmann
- has works in the collection
- Société française de photographie
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- place of burial
- Cimetière Notre-Dame
- interested in
- physics
- Commons Creator page
- Gabriel Lippmann
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Encyclopedic overview
Gabriel Lippmann (/ˈlɪpmən/ LIP-muhn; French: [ɡabʁijɛl lipman]; 16 August 1845 – 12 July 1921) was a French applied 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.
Biography
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