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Gabriel Lippmann

Gabriel Lippmann

1845 CE1921 CE · Bonnevoie

Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann ( 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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