Gabriel Lippmann

Gabriel Lippmann ForMemRS
Lippmann in 1908
Born	Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (1845-08-16)16 August 1845 Bonnevoie, Luxembourg (now part of Luxembourg City)
Died	12 July 1921(1921-07-12) (aged 75) SS France, Atlantic Ocean
Alma mater	École normale supérieure Heidelberg University
Known for	Lippmann plate Lippmann electrometer Electrowetting Integral photography Piezoelectricity
Awards	Legion of Honour (Knight, 1881; Officer, 1894; Commander, 1900; Grand Officer, 1919) ForMemRS (1896) Nobel Prize in Physics (1908)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Sorbonne University
Doctoral advisor	Gustav Kirchhoff
Other academic advisors	Hermann von Helmholtz[1]
Doctoral students	Marie Curie Constantin Miculescu
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Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann ForMemRS (16 August 1845 – 12 July 1921) was a Luxembourgish-French physicist, inventor and Nobel laureate in Physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference.^[2]