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Gabriel Lippmann

Gabriel Lippmann
Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1921)

Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann was a Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference. His parents were French Jews.

16 August 1845

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