Gabriel lippmann's major contributions and honors

Lippmann has made great achievements in physics and studied a wide range, especially in electricity, heat, optics and optoelectronics. At that time, the European scientific community recognized him as an authority. One day, when he hosted a dinner for celebrities in the scientific community, he presented his invented capillary potentiometer to the French Physical Society without reservation. At that time, if he applied for a patent for this invention at home or abroad, he could immediately become a millionaire. His spirit of not being greedy for wealth, treating scientific achievements as all mankind's and making contributions to science and the motherland comes from his mother's teaching. Lippmann is also the inventor of "color photographic interferometry". Because of his outstanding contribution, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 after being appraised by the Swedish Academy of Royal Sciences. 19 12, lippmann was elected president of French academy of sciences. 192 1 year, lippman went to Canada and the United States to give lectures, fell ill abroad, and died on his way back to China in July 13.