# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alphonse-poitevin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:29:15.180Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alphonse-poitevin"
name: "Alphonse Poitevin"
slug: "alphonse-poitevin"
description: "Alphonse Louis Poitevin was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes."
tagline: "French chemist, photographer and engineer (1819–1882)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alphonse_Poitevin_1883_Bulletin_de_la_Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_fran%C3%A7aise_de_photographie.png?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: "1819-08-29"
deathDate: "1882-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.741685333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "柏德范"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "الفونس پويتيڤين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Alphons_Poitevin"
    title: "Louis Alphons Poitevin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Alphonse_Poitevin"
    title: "Louis-Alphonse Poitevin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Louis_Poitevin"
    title: "Alphonse Louis Poitevin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Poitevin"
    title: "Alphonse Poitevin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Poitevin"
    title: "Alphonse Poitevin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Poitevin"
    title: "Alphonse Poitevin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Poitevin"
    title: "Alphonse Poitevin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Poitevin"
    title: "Alphonse Poitevin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1356899"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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