Gabriel Lippmann - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1908
photo Gabriel Lippmann

Gabriel Lippmann

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1908
for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference
Citizenship
Luxembourg Luxembourg France France
Languages
French
date of birth
8/16/1845
place of birth
Bonnevoie
date of death
7/13/1921
place of death
Atlantic Ocean
Lived
75 years
member of
  • French Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1886
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 5/15/1892
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 8/23/1909
  • Royal Society of London
  • Astronomical Society of France
  • Fédération photographique de France
  • Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Romanian Academy
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • Société Philomathique de Paris
position held
  • president
    • start time: January 1904
    • end time: December 1904
  • president of the French Academy of Sciences
    • end time: 12/31/1912
    • start time: 1/1/1912
  • president
    • start time: 1908
doctoral student
  • Maurice Couette
  • Alphonse Berget
  • Pierre Curie
  • Marie Curie
  • Auguste Ponsot
  • Paul Langevin
occupation
  • photographer
  • professor
  • physicist
  • inventor
educated at
  • Lycée Henri-IV
  • University of Paris
  • École Normale Supérieure
field of work
  • photography
  • physics
employer
  • University of Paris
  • Laboratoire de recherches physiques de la faculté des sciences de Paris
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