Gabriel Lippmann
AUG 16, 2016
The Nobel laureate made significant contributions to astronomical optics.
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031287
Born on 16 August 1845 in Hollerich, Luxembourg, Gabriel Lippmann was a physicist who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing an interference-based method of color photography. He made many other contributions to physics and photography. He invented the coelostat, which accounted for Earth’s rotation so that astronomers could take sharp long-exposure photos of the sky using a stationary telescope. Lippmann also proposed and demonstrated integral imaging, in which a two-dimensional array of tiny lenses creates a 3D image.
Date in History: 16 August 1845
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