# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-potier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:56:59.600Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-potier"
name: "Alfred Potier"
slug: "alfred-potier"
description: "Alfred Potier was a French polymath who contributed to many theoretical and practical fields of science when this was rapidly expanding. His interests covered mainly mathematical physics, the nature of light and the ether, geology, electricity and magnetism and their practical applications in industry. His name appears in a little explored footnote inserted by Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley in their famous publication."
tagline: "French polymath (1840–1905)"
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: "1840-05-11"
deathDate: "1905-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.802124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%87"
    title: "ألفريد بوتييه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%87"
    title: "الفريد بوتييه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Potier"
    title: "Alfred Potier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Potier"
    title: "Alfred Potier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Potier"
    title: "Alfred Potier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2401014"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump