Which Happened First?

Gabriel Lippmann

Gabriel Lippmann
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Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann was a French applied physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 for his invention of the Lippmann plate, a method of photographically reproducing colours based on the interference phenomenon.

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Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. Élie MetchnikoffMay 3, 1845 – July 2, 1916
  2. Émile BaudotSeptember 11, 1845 – March 28, 1903
  3. Gabriel Lippmann (this page)August 16, 1845 – July 13, 1921
  4. Gustaf de LavalMay 9, 1845 – February 2, 1913
  5. Ivan PuliuiFebruary 2, 1845 – January 31, 1918
  6. Peter Carl FabergéMay 30, 1846 – September 24, 1920

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