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IT is with great regret that we learn of the death of PROF. GABRIEL LIPPMANN, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, on July 14 on board the liner La France while on his way from Canada, where he had formed part of the French Mission under Marshal Fayolle. Prof. Lippmann was born in 1845 and educated in Paris. His work there was concerned mainly with the relation between electrical and capillary phenomena, the outcome of which was his capillary electrometer and other instruments. His process of colour photography, announced in 1891, is widely known. In 1908 he was awarded the Nobel prize for physics, and in 1912 became president of the Paris Academy of Sciences.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 107, 659 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107659a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107659a0