Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann was a French 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. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1908, announced November 10, 1908. Gabriel Lippmann, “for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference”. Gabriel Lippmann: born 1845, Hollerich, Luxembourg. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).