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Gabriel Lippmann

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Gabriel Lippmann (August 16, 1845 - July 13, 1921) was a French physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for producing the first colour photographic plate. He was known for the innovations that resulted from his search for a direct colour-sensitive medium in photography.

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