Gabriel Lippmann
From Graces Guide
Professor Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (16 August 1845 – 13 July 1921) was a Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference. [1]
Contributions to Photography, physics and astronomy include;
- The capillary electrometer.
- In 1886. Colour photography based on the interference phenomenon, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1908.
- In 1908. Integral photography.
- In 1895. He studied the eradication of irregularities of pendulum clocks, devising a method of comparing the times of oscillation of two pendulums of nearly equal period.
- The coelostat. An astronomical tool that compensated for the Earth's rotation, allowing astrophotgraphy.
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