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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| 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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