When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
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Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.
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Birth: | 16th August, 1845 |
Death: | 13th July, 1921 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Physicist |
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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