Skip to content
228,584 profiles ranked

No free photograph

Otto Laporte

Physicist, quantum mechanics, electromagnetic wave propagation theory, spectroscopy, fluid dynamics (1902-1971) · Germany · On the map · Scientists · Died at 68

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.

Otto Laporte is read about 5.5 times a day, in 8 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 9 June 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?
Compare

Awards

Fellow of the American Physical Society

About this person

His name is lent to the Laporte rule in spectroscopy and to the Otto Laporte Award of the American Physical Society.

Country
Germany
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1902 to 1971 · aged 68