# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexis-marie-de-rochon
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:34:36.884Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexis-marie-de-rochon"
name: "Alexis-Marie de Rochon"
slug: "alexis-marie-de-rochon"
description: "Alexis-Marie de Rochon, known as Abbé Rochon, was born in Brest, France on 21 February 1741, and died in Paris on 5 April 1817. He was a French astronomer, physicist and traveller. He worked on lens design and crystal optics, inventing the Rochon prism."
tagline: "French physicist (1741-1817)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexis_Rochon_AGE_V14_1804.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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birthDate: "1741-02-21"
deathDate: "1817-04-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.5
  historical:           5.00342
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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    title: "الكسيس ماري دي روشون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis-Marie_de_Rochon"
    title: "Alexis-Marie de Rochon"
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    title: "Рошон, Алексис-Мари де"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis-Marie_de_Rochon"
    title: "Alexis-Marie de Rochon"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump