PHYSICIST

Gabriel Lippmann

1845 - 1921

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Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (16 August 1845 – 12 July 1921) was a Luxembourgish-born French physicist and inventor 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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabriel Lippmann has received more than 327,267 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Gabriel Lippmann is the 55th most popular physicist (up from 58th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Luxembourg (up from 3rd 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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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gabriel Lippmann ranks 55 out of 851. Before him are Christian Doppler, Barry Barish, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Wilhelm Wien, and Ernst Mach. After him are Thomas Young, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Ludwig Boltzmann, Hermann von Helmholtz, Robert Andrews Millikan, and Maria Goeppert Mayer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Gabriel Lippmann ranks 6. Before him are Wilhelm Röntgen, Alexander III of Russia, Ludwig II of Bavaria, Georg Cantor, and George I of Greece. After him are Gabriel Fauré, Élie Metchnikoff, Amadeo I of Spain, Carl Spitteler, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, and Ludwig III of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1921, Gabriel Lippmann ranks 4. Before him are Enrico Caruso, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Peter Kropotkin. After him are Peter I of Serbia, Ludwig III of Bavaria, Carl Menger, Alfred Hermann Fried, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Talaat Pasha, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, and Nicholas I of Montenegro.

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In Luxembourg

Among people born in Luxembourg, Gabriel Lippmann ranks 2 out of 95. Before him are Robert Schuman (1886). After him are John of Bohemia (1296), Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1955), Jean-Claude Juncker (1954), Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1896), Jacques Santer (1937), Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1921), Jules A. Hoffmann (1941), Ernst von Mansfeld (1580), Gaston Thorn (1928), and Hugo Gernsback (1884).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Luxembourg

Among physicists born in Luxembourg, Gabriel Lippmann ranks 1. 

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