Pierre Weiss
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Pierre-Ernest Weiss was a French physicist who specialized in magnetism. He developed the domain theory of ferromagnetism in 1907. Weiss domains and the Weiss magneton are named after him. Weiss also
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Albert Einstein, Paul Ehrenfest, Paul Langevin, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and Pierre Weiss at Kamerlingh Onnes home at Leiden.
Aimé Cotton
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Aimé Auguste Cotton 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 ro
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…Paris, he met several colleagues who will become famous mathematicians like Élie Cartan, Henri Lebesgue, and Émile Borel, and famous physicists like Aimé Cotton, Jean Perrin, and Paul Langevin. In 1895, he won the title of maître de conférences (lecturer) at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Rennes…
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Cotton at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1910