Gabriel Lippmann
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann was a FrancoLuxembourgish physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference.
Gabriel Lippmann was born in Bonnevoie, Luxembourgh , onAugust 1845. At the time, Bonnevoie was part of the commune of Hollerich which is often given as his place of birth. His father, Isae, a French Jew born in Ennery near Metz, managed the family glovemaking business at the former convent in Bonnevoie. In 1848, the family moved to Paris where Lippmann was initially tutored by his mother, Miriam Rose , before attending the Lyce Napolon . 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 cole normale suprieure in Paris where he failed the agrgation examination which would have enabled him to enter the teaching profession, preferring instead to study physics. In 1872, the French government sent him on a mission to Heidelberg University where he was able to specialize in electricity with the encouragement of Gustav Kirchhoff, receiving a doctorate with summa cum laude distinction in 1874. Lippm
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