When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
Gabriel Lippmann Quotes
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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| Birth: | 16th August, 1845 |
| Death: | 13th July, 1921 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Physicist |
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Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann was born in Bonnevoie, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. He was a French physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference. He received a doctorate with "summa cum laude" distinction in 1874. He was a professor of physics at the Sorbonne.
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