Gabriel Lippmann was born on 16 August 1845 in Bonnevoie. A French physicist born in Luxembourg, Lippmann invented a method of color photography based on the interference of light waves, in which light reflected from a mercury mirror creates standing waves within a photographic emulsion. The method produced highly accurate colors, and won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908, but was too complex for general use and was displaced by other processes. He also studied electrocapillary phenomena and developed the capillary electrometer, and he contributed to the theory of seismographs and to the measurement of time. He was a professor at the Sorbonne, and died aboard a ship returning from Canada.
Before and after
- from 11 March 1845 to 11 January 1846Flagstaff War
- 27 March 1845Birth of Wilhelm Röntgen
- from 19 May 1845 to 1 January 1848Franklin's lost expedition
- 8 June 1845Death of Andrew Jackson
- 16 August 1845Birth of Gabriel Lippmann
- 10 October 1845Founding of United States Naval Academy
- 20 November 1845Battle of Vuelta de Obligado
- from 11 December 1845 to 9 March 1846First Anglo-Sikh War
- 29 December 1845Founding of Atlanta
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