Gabriel Lippmann
Gabriel Lippmann
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmannwas a Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth16 August 1845
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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
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This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.
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The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.