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Gabriel Lippmann

1845 to 1921 5 documented presences 5 places

Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Gabriel Lippmann across 5 places, from 1845 to 1921. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Gabriel Lippmann (16 August 1845 – 12 July 1921) 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.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Gabriel Lippmann was documented, and when

16 August 1845exact date
Hollerichattested “Gabriel Lippmann was born on 16 August 1845 to Jewish parents in Hollerich, Luxembourg, where his father managed a glove-making business.” source: Wikipedia: Gabriel Lippmann
1848 to 1858period
Parisattested “In 1848, the family moved to Paris, where Lippmann was initially tutored by his mother, before entering the Lycée Napoléon (now the Lycée Henri-IV) in 1858.” source: Wikipedia: Gabriel Lippmann
1873year
Germanyattested “In 1873, the French government sent Lippmann on a scientific mission to Germany to study methods of teaching science.” source: Wikipedia: Gabriel Lippmann
12 July 1921exact date
Canadaattested “Lippmann died at sea, when he was on the return voyage from Canada to France, on 12 July 1921 at the age of 75.” source: Wikipedia: Gabriel Lippmann
12 July 1921exact date
Franceattested “Lippmann died at sea, when he was on the return voyage from Canada to France, on 12 July 1921 at the age of 75.” source: Wikipedia: Gabriel Lippmann

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Places Gabriel Lippmann is documented in

Canada1 presence · 1921France1 presence · 1921Germany1 presence · 1873Paris1 presence · 1848
Hollerich1 presence · 1845

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1874year
University of Heidelbergmentioned “He worked with Wilhelm Kühne and Gustav Kirchhoff at the University of Heidelberg, receiving a doctorate with distinction in 1874.” source: Wikipedia: Gabriel Lippmann
17 January 1883exact date
Philosophical Societymentioned “In a paper delivered to the Philosophical Society of Glasgow on 17 January 1883, John Gray McKendrick described the apparatus as follows: :Lippmann's electrometer consists of a tube of ordinary glass, 1 metre long and 7 millimetres in di…” source: Wikipedia: Gabriel Lippmann
2 February 1891exact date
French Academymentioned “On 2 February 1891, he announced to the French Academy of Sciences: "I have succeeded in obtaining the image of the spectrum with its colours on a photographic plate whereby the image remains fixed and can remain in daylight without dete…” source: Wikipedia: Gabriel Lippmann

Documented at the same place, the same year

Otto von BismarckGermany · 1873Constantin CarathéodoryGermany · 1873Anton von WernerGermany · 1873Paul GauguinParis · 1848Hector BerliozParis · 1848Vilfredo ParetoParis · 1848Leopold I of BelgiumParis · 1848François-René de ChateaubriandParis · 1848José de San MartínParis · 1848Lola MontezParis · 1848Wilhelm LiebknechtParis · 1848Liane de PougyParis · 1848

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