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Gabriel Lippmann
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| Gabriel Lippmann | |
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 Gabriel Jonas Lippmann |
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| Born | August 16, 1845 Hollerich, Luxembourg |
| Died | July 13, 1921 (aged 75) Atlantic Ocean, travelling from Canada to France |
| Residence | France |
| Nationality | French |
| Field | Physicist |
| Institutions | Sorbonne |
| Alma mater | École Normale |
| Known for | Colour photography Lippmann plate Lippmann electrometer |
| Notable prizes |  Nobel Prize for Physics (1908) |
Gabriel Jonas Lippmann (August 16, 1845 – July 13, 1921) was a Franco-Luxembourgian physicist and inventor. He was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference, 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.
He married the daughter of novellist Victor Cherbuliez in 1888.[1]
- ^ a b c Gabriel Lippmann. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-02-12.
- ^ (French) Les Membres de l'Académie des sciences depuis sa création (en 1666). Académie des sciences. Retrieved on 2007-02-12.
- Nobel Foundation - Official site (source for all citations quoted)
- Gabriel Lippmann in Jewish Encyclopedia
- Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann
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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 |
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| 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 |
Categories: Experimental physicists | French physicists | Jewish scientists | Jewish inventors | French Jews | Luxembourgian Jews | Luxembourgian inventors | Nobel laureates in Physics | Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure | Foreign Members of the Royal Society | 1845 births | 1921 deaths | People from Luxembourg City