Photograph of Solar Spectrum
date: label: date made
content: 1908
name: label: maker
content: Lippmann, Gabriel
notes: label: Description
content: Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (1845-1921) was a Jewish physicist in Paris who, in 1908, won the Nobel Prize for his method of reproducing colors photographically. This example of Lippmann’s photograph of the solar spectrum passed from Lipmann to R. W. Wood, to A. H. Pfund, to J. D. Strong, and then to J. H. Taylor who donated it to the Smithsonian.
label: Description
content: Ref: S. R. Cajal, "The Structure of LIppmann Heliochromes," <i>Smithsonian Institution Annual Report</i> (1907): 239-259.
label: Description
content: “GABRIEL LIPPMANN, SCIENTIST, DIES AT SEA,” New York Times (July 14, 1921), p. 12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: J. H. Taylor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0521.03
label: accession number
content: 1985.0521
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0521.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph, solar spectrum, color
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.9 cm x 8.6 cm x 6.5 cm; 3/4 in x 3 3/8 in x 2 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 4 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 12.065 cm x 8.89 cm