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Gabriel Lippmann

1845 - 1921

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Gabriel Lippmann ( LIP-muhn; 16 August 1845 – 12 July 1921) was a French physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 "for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gabriel Lippmann is the 52nd most popular physicist (up from 55th in 2019), the most popular biography from Luxembourg (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Luxembourger Physicist.

Gabriel Lippmann is most famous for his invention of the color photograph in 1891.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gabriel Lippmann ranks 52 out of 851. Before him are David J. Thouless, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Philip Warren Anderson, Gustav Kirchhoff, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, and Brian Josephson. After him are K. Alex Müller, Wilhelm Wien, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Richard Feynman, Sheldon Lee Glashow, and Patrick Blackett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Gabriel Lippmann ranks 4. Before him are Wilhelm Röntgen, Alexander III of Russia, and Ludwig II of Bavaria. After him are Georg Cantor, Gabriel Fauré, George I of Greece, Élie Metchnikoff, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Amadeo I of Spain, Ludwig III of Bavaria, and Carl Spitteler. Among people deceased in 1921, Gabriel Lippmann ranks 2. Before him is Camille Saint-Saëns. After him are Enrico Caruso, Peter Kropotkin, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Nicholas I of Montenegro, Peter I of Serbia, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Alfred Hermann Fried, Ludwig III of Bavaria, and Carl Menger.

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In Luxembourg

Among people born in Luxembourg, Gabriel Lippmann ranks 1 out of 95. After him are Robert Schuman (1886), Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1921), John of Bohemia (1296), Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1955), Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1894), Jean-Claude Juncker (1954), Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1896), Jules A. Hoffmann (1941), Jacques Santer (1937), Gaston Thorn (1928), and Ernst von Mansfeld (1580).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Luxembourg

Among physicists born in Luxembourg, Gabriel Lippmann ranks 1. 

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