Aimé Cotton
French physicist (1869-1951) · France · On the map · Scientists · Died at 81
Aimé Auguste Cotton was a French physicist known for his studies of the interaction of light with chiral molecules.
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In the absorption bands of these molecules, he discovered large values of optical rotatory dispersion (ORD), or variation of optical rotation as a function of wavelength, as well as circular dichroism or differences of absorption between left and right circularly polarized light.
