Gabriel Lippmann

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**Gabriel Lippmann** <tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Image:Gabriel Lippmann.jpg
Gabriel Jonas Lippmann</td></tr>
Born	August 16, 1845 Hollerich, Luxembourg <tr><th>Died</th><td>July 13, 1921 Atlantic Ocean, travelling from Canada to France</td></tr><tr><th>Residence</th><td>Image:Flag of France (bordered).svg France</td></tr><tr><th>Nationality</th><td>Image:Flag of France (bordered).svg French</td></tr><tr><th>Field</th><td>Physicist</td></tr><tr><th>Institution</th><td>Sorbonne</td></tr><tr><th>Alma Mater</th><td>École Normale</td></tr><tr><th>Known for</th><td>Colour photography</td></tr><tr><th>Notable Prizes</th><td>Nobel Prize for Physics (1908)</td></tr>

Gabriel Jonas Lippmann ( August 16, 1845 – July 13, 1921) was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference, known as the Lippmann plate. He was born to a Jewish family in Hollerich, Luxemburg.

He is remembered for the innovations that resulted from his search for a direct colour-sensitive medium in photography. He was one of the founders of the Institut d'optique théorique et appliquée in France.

See also the List of Nobel laureates.

He also invented an electrometer that was used in the first ECG machine.

He married Mme Cherbuliez in 1888.

He was a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London and a member of the Bureau des Longitudes.

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