Gabriel Lippmann
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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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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.
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1845 births1921 deaths19th-century French Jews20th-century French physicistsColor scientistsCorresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925)Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesÉcole normale supérieure (Paris) alumniForeign members of the Royal SocietyFrench experimental physicistsFrench fellows of the Royal Society