Gabriel Lippmann
Physicist and inventor
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Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann 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. His parents were French Jews. Wikipedia
Born: August 16, 1845, Bonnevoie
Died: July 13, 1921 (age 75 years), Atlantic Ocean
Education: University of Paris and École normale supérieure
Award: Nobel Prize in Physics (1908)
Partner: Laurence Lippmann
Doctoral advisor: Gustav Kirchhoff