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Gabriel Lippmann
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<p>Gabriel Lippmann (French: [ɡabʁijɛl]; 16 August 1845 – 12 July 1921) was a French <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a> and inventor who received the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics/o6w1nCbr">Nobel Prize in Physics</a> in 1908 "for <a href="/facts/Lippmann_plate/vqM41LyX">his method of reproducing colours photographically</a> based on the phenomenon of <a href="/facts/Interference_(wave_propagation)/lI5f78I4">interference</a>". </p>