2010 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Jean-Louis Marignier is a researcher for the CNRS at the
Physical Chemistry lab of the University Paris-Sud Orsay. He has
rediscovered the whole photographic processes invented by Nicéphore
Niépce and forgotten since, and discovered an unknown
process invented by Niépce and Daguerre. Author of the Niépce
Website and responsible for its technical and historical content,
Ph.D. in physics, he is a specialist of chemistry under radiation.
Prizewinner of the Académie des Sciences (Kodak Grand Prize
in 1991), he has also received the Salverte Medal from the French
Society of Photography (1991). He is the author of over forty
articles on Niépce as well as the book entitled Niépce, L'invention
de la photographie, published by Belin Editions in 1999. He is also
the co-writer with Manuel Bonnet of the book Niépce, Correspondance
et Papiers, published by Maison Nicéphore Niépce Editions
in 2003.