# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abraham-bennet
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:12:42.263Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abraham-bennet"
name: "Abraham Bennet"
slug: "abraham-bennet"
description: "Abraham Bennet FRS was an English clergyman and physicist, the inventor of the gold-leaf electroscope and developer of an improved magnetometer. Alessandro Volta cited Bennet as a key influence on his work, although Bennet's own work was curtailed by the political turbulence of his time."
tagline: "British physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Abraham_Bennet.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1749-12-20"
deathDate: "1799-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.071238666666666
  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "أبراهام بينيت"
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    title: "Abraham Bennet"
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    title: "آبراهام بنیت"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump