Gabriel Lippmann
1845 – 1921 · aged 76
Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French (1845-1921)
- Born
- 16 Aug 1845 · Bonnevoie
- Died
- 13 Jul 1921 · Atlantic Ocean
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- 16 Aug 1845BornBorn in Bonnevoie
- 1896AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1901AwardJean Reynaud Prize
- 1904RolePresident
- 1908AwardNobel Prize in Physics
- 1908RolePresident
- 1912RolePresident of the French Academy of Sciences
- 1919AwardGrand Officer of the Legion of Honour
- 13 Jul 1921DiedDied in Atlantic Ocean
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Major world events during their lifetime (1845 – 1921).
- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
Biography
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann ( LIP-muhn; French: [ɡabʁijɛl lipman]; 16 August 1845 – 12 July 1921) was a French 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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