# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marie-alfred-cornu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:36:57.124Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/marie-alfred-cornu"
name: "Marie Alfred Cornu"
slug: "marie-alfred-cornu"
description: "Marie Alfred Cornu was a French physicist and professor of École polytechnique. The Cornu spiral, a graphical device for the computation of light intensities in Augustin-Jean Fresnel's model of near-field diffraction, is named after him. The spiral is also used in geometric design of roads. The Cornu depolarizer is also named after him."
tagline: "French physicist (1841–1902)"
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birthDate: "1841-03-06"
deathDate: "1902-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump