# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-laporte
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:06:37.958Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-laporte"
name: "Otto Laporte"
slug: "otto-laporte"
description: "Otto Laporte was a German-born American physicist and professor at the University of Michigan, who made contributions to quantum mechanics, electromagnetic wave propagation theory, spectroscopy, and fluid dynamics. His name is lent to the Laporte rule in spectroscopy and to the Otto Laporte Award of the American Physical Society."
tagline: "Physicist, quantum mechanics, electromagnetic wave propagation theory, spectroscopy, fluid dynamics (1902–1971)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1902-07-23"
deathDate: "1971-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Laporte"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump