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Gabriel Lippmann

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who invented a method for colour photography

Did you know?He also invented the coelostat, a device that allows a telescope to record the stars without moving the instrument itself.

Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann ( LIP-muhn; French:; 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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