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11 quotes by Gabriel Lippmann

Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (16 August 1845 – 13 July 1921) was a Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference.
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Life is short and progress is slow.

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In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values... →

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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... →

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This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.

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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes... →

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I got quite good results from protein plates.

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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may... →

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The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus... →

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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

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When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

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