# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-brillouin
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:02:51.886Z

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name: "Léon Brillouin"
slug: "leon-brillouin"
description: "Léon Nicolas Brillouin was a French physicist. He made contributions to quantum mechanics, radio wave propagation in the atmosphere, solid-state physics, and information theory."
tagline: "French physicist (1889-1969)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1889-08-07"
deathDate: "1969-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump