# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aime-cotton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:28:03.396Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aime-cotton"
name: "Aimé Cotton"
slug: "aime-cotton"
description: "Aimé Auguste Cotton was a French physicist known for his studies of the interaction of light with chiral molecules. In the absorption bands of these molecules, he discovered large values of optical rotatory dispersion (ORD), or variation of optical rotation as a function of wavelength, as well as circular dichroism or differences of absorption between left and right circularly polarized light."
tagline: "French physicist (1869–1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/A._Cotton._Photograph_by_Studio_Harcourt._Wellcome_V0026218.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1869-10-09"
deathDate: "1951-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.185185185185185
  historical:           10.27552266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Еме Коттон"
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    title: "أيميه كوتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ايميه كوتن"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9_Cotton"
    title: "Aimé Cotton"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9_Cotton"
    title: "Aimé Cotton"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9_Cotton"
    title: "Aimé Cotton"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%86"
    title: "امه کاتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9_Cotton"
    title: "Aimé Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9_Auguste_Cotton"
    title: "Aimé Auguste Cotton"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9_Cotton"
    title: "Aimé Cotton"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump