Aimé Cotton
Aimé Auguste Cotton (9 October 1869 – 16 April 1951) was a French physicist known for his studies of the interaction of light with chiral molecules. 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 (Cotton effect), as well as circular dichroism or differences of absorption between left and right circularly polarized light.
Aimé Auguste Cotton | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 9, 1869 |
| Died | April 16, 1951 (aged 81) Sèvres, France |
| Alma mater | École normale supérieure |
| Known for | Cotton effect Cotton–Mouton effect |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics Optics |
| Institutions | University of Paris |
| Doctoral students | Pierre Jacquinot |
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