Aimé Cotton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aimé Cotton

French physicist

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1869

Place of Birth: Bourg-en-Bresse, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 16-Apr-1951

Profession: physicist, Esperantist, French Resistance fighter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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.