# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alphonse-chapanis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:09:55.938Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alphonse-chapanis"
name: "Alphonse Chapanis"
slug: "alphonse-chapanis"
description: "Alphonse Chapanis was an American pioneer in the field of industrial design, and is widely considered one of the fathers of ergonomics or human factors – the science of ensuring that design takes account of human characteristics."
tagline: "American industrial designer and professor of psychological and brain sciences"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917-03-17"
deathDate: "2002-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.273362666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Chapanis"
    title: "Alphonse Chapanis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "الفونس شابانيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Chapanis"
    title: "Alphonse Chapanis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Chapanis"
    title: "Alphonse Chapanis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonsas_%C4%8Capanis"
    title: "Alfonsas Čapanis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Chapanis"
    title: "Alphonse Chapanis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4735354"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump