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Gabriel Jonas Lippmann (August 16, 1845 – July 13, 1921) was a Franco-Luxembourgian physicist and inventor. He was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference, known as the Lippmann plate. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Hollerich, in south-western Luxembourg City. ... July 13 is the 194th day of the year (195th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France_(bordered). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France_(bordered). ... Articles with similar titles include physician, a person who practices medicine. ... Inscription over the entrance to the Sorbonne The front of the Sorbonne Building The name Sorbonne (La Sorbonne) is commonly used to refer to the historic University of Paris in Paris, France or one of its successor institutions (see below), but this is a recent usage, and Sorbonne has actually... The Ã‰cole normale supÃ©rieure de la rue dUlm (also known as Normale Sup, Normale, ENS, ENS-Paris, ENS-Ulm or Ulm) is a French grande Ã©cole, whose main campus is located around the rue dUlm (Ulm Street) in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. ... Color photography was explored throughout the 1800s. ... Early colour photograph by Lippmann Named after Gabriel Lippmann, physicist. ... A Lipman electrometer is a device for detecting small rushes of electric current. ... Image File history File links Nobel. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... July 13 is the 194th day of the year (195th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Motto: LibertÃ©, Ã‰galitÃ©, FraternitÃ© Liberty, Equality, Fraternity Anthem: La Marseillaise Metropolitan France() â€“ on the European continent() â€“ in the European Union() â€” [] Capital (and largest city) Paris Official languages French Government Unitary republic - President Jacques Chirac - Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin Formation - Celtic Gaul 1200 BC - Franks 11 BC - Kingdom of France... Motto Mir wÃ«lle bleiwe wat mir sinn(Luxembourgish) We wish to remain what we are Anthem Ons HÃ©mÃ©cht(Our Homeland) Royal anthem: De Wilhelmus 1 Luxembourg(circled) â€“ on the European continent() â€“ in the European Union() [] Capital (and largest city) Luxembourg Official languages French, German, Luxembourgish (de jure... Articles with similar titles include physician, a person who practices medicine. ... For other uses, see Inventor (disambiguation). ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Hannes AlfvÃ©n (1908â€“1995) accepting the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... Interference of two circular waves - Wavelength (decreasing bottom to top) and Wave centers distance (increasing to the right). ... Early colour photograph by Lippmann Named after Gabriel Lippmann, physicist. ...

He was born to Franco-Jewish parents in Hollerich, Luxemburg. When Gabriel was three, his family moved back to France, to live in Paris, where he was homeschooled.^[1] This article incorporates text from the public domain 1901-1906 Jewish Encyclopedia The history of the Jews of France dates back over 2,000 years. ... Hollerich, in south-western Luxembourg City. ... Luxembourg - a small country in west Europe Luxembourg (city) - the capital city of the country Luxembourg (district) - a district in the country Luxembourg, province of Belgium Luxemburg, Iowa - a city in the USA Luxemburg, Wisconsin - a village in the USA Luxembourg Garden, Paris, France Luxemburg Township, Minnesota - a township in... This article is about the capital of France. ... Homeschooling â€“ also called home education or home school â€“ is the education of children at home, typically by parents or guardians, rather than in a public or private school. ...

He is remembered for the innovations that resulted from his search for a direct color-sensitive medium in photography. He was one of the founders of the Institut d'optique théorique et appliquée in France. He also invented an electrometer that was used in the first ECG machine. A Lipman electrometer is a device for detecting small rushes of electric current. ... ECG may also refer to the East Coast Greenway Lead II An Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG, abbreviated from the German Elektrokardiogramm) is a graphic produced by an electrocardiograph, which records the electrical voltage in the heart in the form of a continuous strip graph. ...

Lippmann was a member of the Academy of Sciences from 8 February 1886 until his death, including serving as its President in 1912.^[2] In addition, he was a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London, a member of the Bureau des Longitudes,^[1] and a member of the Grand Ducal Institute. Louis XIV visiting the AcadÃ©mie in 1671 The French Academy of Sciences (AcadÃ©mie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. ... February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Foreign Member of the Royal Society is an honourary postition within the Royal Society. ... The premises of The Royal Society in London (first four properties only). ... The Bureau des Longitudes is a French scientific institution, founded by decree of June 25, 1795 and charged with the improvement of nautical navigation, standardisation of time-keeping, geodesy and astronomical observation. ... Grand Ducal Institute (French: ) is the national academy of Luxembourg, and is based in Luxembourg City in the south of the country. ...

He married the daughter of novellist Victor Cherbuliez in 1888.^[1] Charles Victor Cherbuliez (July 19, 1829 - July 1, 1899), French novelist and miscellaneous writer, was born at Geneva, where his father, André Cherbuliez (1795-1874), was a classical professor at the university. ... Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

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Nobel Prize in Physics: Laureates (1901-1925)

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1901: Röntgen 1902: Lorentz, Zeeman 1903: Becquerel, P. Curie, M. Curie 1904: Rayleigh 1905: Lenard 1906: Thomson 1907: Michelson 1908: Lippmann 1909: Marconi, Braun 1910: van der Waals 1911: Wien 1912: Dalén 1913: Kamerlingh Onnes 1914: von Laue 1915: W. L. Bragg, W. H. Bragg 1917: Barkla 1918: Planck 1919: Stark 1920: Guillaume 1921: Einstein 1922: N. Bohr 1923: Millikan 1924: Siegbahn 1925: Franck, Hertz Hannes AlfvÃ©n (1908â€“1995) accepting the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... Winners of the Nobel Prize are scientists, writers and peacemakers who have been awarded in their field of endeavour, and who are known collectively as either Nobel laureates or Nobel Prize winners. ... Wilhelm Conrad RÃ¶ntgen (in English: William Conrad Roentgen) (March 27, 1845 â€“ February 10, 1923) was a German physicist, of the University of WÃ¼rzburg, who, on November 8, 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays or RÃ¶ntgen Rays, an achievement... Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (July 18, 1853, Arnhem â€“ February 4, 1928, Haarlem) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and elucidation of the Zeeman effect. ... Pieter Zeeman (May 25, 1865 â€“ October 9, 1943) (pronounced zÄmÃ¤n) was a physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect. ... Antoine Henri Becquerel (December 15, 1852 â€“ August 25, 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity. ... // Pierre Curie (Paris, France, May 15, 1859 â€“ April 19, 1906, Paris) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. ... Madame Curie redirects here. ... See also Rayleigh fading Rayleigh scattering Rayleigh number Rayleigh waves Rayleigh-Jeans law External links Nobel website bio of Rayleigh About John William Strutt MacTutor biography of Lord Rayleigh Categories: People stubs | 1842 births | 1919 deaths | Nobel Prize in Physics winners | Peers | British physicists | Discoverer of a chemical element ... Philipp Eduard Anton von LÃ©nÃ¡rd, (June 7, 1862 in PreÃŸburg, Austria-Hungary (today Bratislava, Slovakia)â€“May 20, 1947 in Messelhausen, Germany) was a Hungarian-German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of... Sir Joseph John Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 â€“ 30 August 1940) often known as J. J. Thomson, was a British scientist. ... Albert Abraham Michelson. ... Guglielmo Marconi, Marchese, GCVO (25 April 1874-20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide. ... Karl Ferdinand Braun (June 6, 1850 - April 20, 1918) was a German physicist, born in Fulda. ... van der Waals Johannes Diderik van der Waals (November 23, 1837 â€“ March 8, 1923) was a Dutch scientist famous for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids, for which he won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1910. ... Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (January 13, 1864 â€“ August 30, 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to compose Wiens displacement law, which relates the maximum emission of a blackbody to its temperature. ... Nils Gustaf DalÃ©n (November 30, 1869 â€“ December 9, 1937) was a Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist, the founder of AGA, the company and inventor of the AGA cooker and the Dalen light. ... Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (September 21, 1853 â€“ February 21, 1926) was a Dutch physicist. ... Max von Laue (October 9, 1879 - April 24, 1960) was a German physicist, who studied under Max Planck. ... Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH, FRS, (31 March 1890 â€“ 1 July 1971) was an Australian physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 with his father Sir William Henry Bragg. ... Sir William Henry Bragg OM, Cantab, OKW (Westward, Cumbria, England July 2, 1862 â€“ March 10, 1942) was an English physicist and chemist, educated at King Williams College, Isle of Man, and Trinity College, Cambridge. ... Charles Glover Barkla (June 7, 1877 â€“ October 23, 1944) was a British physicist. ... Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (April 23, 1858 â€“ October 4, 1947 in GÃ¶ttingen, Germany) was a German physicist. ... Johannes Stark (April 15, 1874 â€“ June 21, 1957) was a prominent 20th century physicist, and a Physics Nobel Prize laureate. ... Charles Ã‰douard Guillaume (February 15, 1861, Fleurier â€“ June 13, 1938, SÃ¨vres), was a French-Swiss Physicist that received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 in recognition of the service he had rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys. ... â€œEinsteinâ€ redirects here. ... Niels (Henrik David) Bohr (October 7, 1885 â€“ November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1922. ... Robert Millikan. ... Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (December 3, 1886 - September 26, 1978) was a Swedish physicist, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy. ... James Franck (August 26, 1882 - May 21, 1964) was a German-born physicist and Nobel laureate. ... Gustav Ludwig Hertz (July 22, 1887, Hamburg – October 30, 1975, Berlin) was a German physicist, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. ...

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