Niepee, Joseph Nicéphore, French chemist, born at Châlons-sur-Saône; inventor of photography, the method of effecting which he achieved after long brooding in 1824, and afterwards communicated to Daguerre, with whom he entered into partnership, and who made it known after his death (1765‒1833).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Niel, Adolphe * Niflheim