# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-williams-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:16:04.559Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-williams-wright"
name: "Arthur Williams Wright"
slug: "arthur-williams-wright"
description: "Arthur Williams Wright was an American physicist. Wright spent most of his scientific career at Yale University, where he received the first science Ph.D. awarded outside of Europe. His research, which ranged from electricity to astronomy, produced the first X-ray image and experimented with Röntgen rays. He also proved instrumental in securing funding for the first dedicated physics laboratory building in the United States, the Sloane Physical Laboratory."
tagline: "American physicist (1836–1915)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arthur_Williams_Wright.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1836-09-08"
deathDate: "1915-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.49
  momentum:             4.175824175824176
  historical:           4.80432
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Williams_Wright"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Williams_Wright"
    title: "Arthur Williams Wright"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_W._Wright"
    title: "Arthur W. Wright"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump