Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor

Claude Félix Abel Niépce de Saint- Victor ( born July 26, 1805 in Saint- Cyr at Chalon -sur -Saône, † April 7, 1870 in Paris; spelling variants: Claude Felix Abel Niépce de Saint Victor and Saint -Victor, Marie Claude Francois Niepce de Saint -Victor ) was a French chemist, inventor and photographer. He is the nephew of the photo pioneer Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.

Life

Niepce de Saint -Victor attended the military school in Saumur, joined as an officer in a dragoon regiment, served from 1845 to 1848 as a lieutenant in the French army in the Paris Municipal Guard in 1854 and second in command of the Louvre.

In this career he pursued diligently the works of his uncle, especially those which related to the photogravure and operated a chemical laboratory in Saint Martin, a suburb of Paris. He invented a process for the creation in 1847 of photographs on glass in the albumin method and was one of the first who tried to photograph on glass; He opened by the photograph in a new era and paved the way for the application of collodion (see Wet collodion process ).

Niepce de Saint -Victor presented together with Alexandre Becquerel ago one of the first color photographs that he could not yet permanently fixed and reliable; this was achieved for the first time Gabriel Lippmann in 1891.

1857-1861 discovered Niépce de Saint -Victor also emit the uranium salts " invisible radiation".

Writings

• Recherches photographiques. Paris 1855
• Traité pratique de gravure héliographique sur acier et sur ​​verre. Paris 1858