colour: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/color

Facts

Also Known As color

Photos and Videos


Topics

Key People

Consider how Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity led to a better understanding of planetary motion
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Edwin Herbert Land
American inventor and physicist
John Tyndall.
John Tyndall
Irish physicist
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Ivan Vasilyevich Klyun
Russian artist and art theorist
Hertzsprung, c. 1930
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Danish astronomer
Ewald Hering
German physiologist and psychologist
Joy Paul Guilford
American psychologist

Quiz
Demystified