“And does not tyranny spring from democracy in the same manner as democracy from oligarchy—I mean, after a sort?”
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Gabriel Lippmann
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann was a French applied physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 for his invention of the Lippmann plate, a method of photographically reproducing colours based on the interference phenomenon.
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science · French physicist (1845–1921) · physicist · inventor · photographer · professor · also Gabriel Lippmann, Gabriel J. F. Lippmann, M. Lippmann, Joseph Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann, Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann, Lippmann
Born 16 August 1845 · Died 13 July 1921 · Q133232
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2026· 2 entries
“Say then, my friend, in what manner does tyranny arise?—that it has democratic origin is evident.”
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2014· 1 entry
“May 22, 2016 Our democracy, as Snowden I think has revealed, has become a fiction. The state, through elaborate forms of political theater, seeks to maintain this fiction to keep us passive. And if we wake up, the state will not shy away from draconian measures. The goal is complete subjugation, the iron rule of our corporations and our power elite. Chris Hedges, “Our Only Hope Will Come Through Rebellion”
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1921· 1 entry
Died 1921-07-13.
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1920· 1 entry
“English and the Discipline of Ideas”
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1919· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (1919).
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1913· 1 entry
“Open Letter to the Masters of Dublin”
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1912· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1912–1912).
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1908· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1908).
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Lippmann introduced what he called "integral photography", in which a plane array of closely spaced, small, spherical lenses is used to photograph a scene, recording images of the scene as it appears from many slightly d
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For his invention of the Lippmann plate, a method of photographically reproducing colours based on the interference phenomenon
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Career landmark: president (1908).
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1904· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1904–1904).
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1901· 1 entry
Awarded Jean Reynaud Prize (1901).
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1900· 1 entry
Lippmann proposed what is later called the Brownian ratchet, as a purely mechanical version of Maxwell's demon, purportedly showing that the kinetic theory of gases is incompatible with the second law of thermodynamics
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1896· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1896).
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1895· 1 entry
Lippmann evolved a method of eliminating the personal equation in measurements of time, using photographic registration, and he studied the eradication of irregularities of pendulum clocks, devising a method of comparing
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1888· 1 entry
Lippmann married the daughter of the novelist Victor Cherbuliez
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1886· 1 entry
Lippmann's interest turned to a method of fixing the colours of the solar spectrum on a photographic plate
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1883· 1 entry
Became Professor of Mathematical Physics, and in 1886 was appointed Professor of Experimental Physics
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1881· 1 entry
Lippmann predicted the converse piezoelectric effect
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1878· 1 entry
Lippmann joined the Faculty of Science at the University of Paris
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1873· 1 entry
The French government sent Lippmann on a scientific mission to Germany to study methods of teaching science
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1868· 1 entry
Was admitted to the École normale supérieure, where he failed the agrégation examination, which would have enabled him to enter the teaching profession, preferring instead to study physics
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1848· 1 entry
The family moved to Paris, where Lippmann was initially tutored by his mother, before entering the Lycée Napoléon (now the Lycée Henri-IV) in 1858
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1845· 1 entry
Born 1845-08-16.
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1795· 1 entry
“Dissertation on First Principles of Government”
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