Gabriel Lippmann
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 Gabriel Jonas Lippmann |
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| Born | August 16, 1845 Hollerich, Luxembourg |
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| Died | July 13, 1921 Atlantic Ocean, travelling from Canada to France |
| Residence |  France |
| Nationality | French |
| Field | Physicist |
| Institution | 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]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ 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.
[edit] External links
- Nobel Foundation - Official site (source for all citations quoted)
- Gabriel Lippmann in Jewish Encyclopedia
- Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann
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1901: Röntgen 1902: Lorentz, Zeeman 1903: Becquerel, P.Curie, M.Curie 1904: Rayleigh 1905: Lenard 1906: Thomson 1907: Michelson 1908: Lippmann 1909: Marconi, Braun 1910: van der Waals 1911: Wien 1912: Dalén 1913: Kamerlingh Onnes 1914: von Laue 1915: W.L.Bragg, W.H.Bragg 1917: Barkla 1918: Planck 1919: Stark 1920: Guillaume 1921: Einstein 1922: N.Bohr 1923: Millikan 1924: Siegbahn 1925: Franck, Hertz |
