About Gabriel Lippmann
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann ( LIP-muhn; French: [ɡabʁijɛl lipman]; 16 August 1845 – 12 July 1921) was a French applied 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. == Biography == Gabriel Lippmann was born on 16 August 1845 to Jewish parents in Hollerich, Luxembourg, where his father managed a glove-making business. In 1848, the family moved to Paris, where Lippmann was initially tutored by his mother, before entering the Lycée Napoléon (now the Lycée Henri-IV) in 1858. He was said to have been a rather inattentive but thoughtful pupil with a special interest in mathematics. In 1868, he was admitted to the École normale supérieure, where he failed the agrégation examination, which would have enabled him to enter the teaching profession, preferring instead to study physics. In 1873, the French government sent Lippmann on a scientific mission to Germany to study methods of teaching science. He worked with Wilhelm Kühne and Gustav Kirchhoff at the University of Heidelberg, receiving a doctorate with summa cum laude distinction in 1874. The following year, he made a brief visit to Hermann von Helmholtz at the University of Berlin, before returning to Paris. On 24 July 1875, he submitted his doctoral thesis on electrocapillarity to the University of Paris. In 1878, Lippmann joined the Faculty of Science at the University of Paris.
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