Gabriel Lippmann | |
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Born | Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann 16 August 1845 Bonnevoie, Luxembourg (now part of Luxembourg City) |
Died | 12 July 1921 | (aged 75)
Alma mater | École normale supérieure Heidelberg University |
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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]