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Gabriel Lippmann

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Gabriel Lippmann

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Also known as Gabriel J. F. Lippmann, M. Lippmann, Joseph Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann, Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann

Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French (1845-1921)

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Gabriel Lippmann was a male figure associated with the United States. He was born on August 16, 1845, and died on July 13, 1921. His recorded works include "Untersuchungen uber den Sauregrad des Mageninhaltes bei Anwendung verschiedener Indikatoren" and "Unités électriques absolues."

Lippmann received one Nobel Prize. He is recognized in the Nobel Physics collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the Royal Society collection.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1908

    for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Gabriel
Gender
male
Citizenship
Luxembourg
Place of birth
Bonnevoie
Place of death
Atlantic Ocean
Occupation
professor
Languages spoken
French
Doctoral advisor
Hermann von Helmholtz
Field of work
photography
Image
Gabriel Lippmann2.jpg
Residence
France
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Commons category
Gabriel Lippmann
date of birth
1845-08-16
date of death
1921-07-13
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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