Lippmann plate
Fotografía interferencial
- Date
- 1891 · confidence high
- Place
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Credited to
- Gabriel Lippmann
- Field
- Communication
What it is
A color photography process that records color information through light interference in an emulsion placed against a mercury mirror during exposure, invented by Gabriel Lippmann.
What it led to
- earned Lippmann the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics
- spurred later work on holography and interferometry
- a historical reference for photography without dyes or filters