# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-kidd-ridley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:16:25.643Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-kidd-ridley"
name: "Brian Kidd Ridley"
slug: "brian-kidd-ridley"
description: "Brian Kidd Ridley was a British solid-state physicist specialising in semiconductor theory. He was an emeritus professor at the University of Essex."
tagline: "British physicist (1931–2024)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1931-03-02"
deathDate: "2024-05-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.823529411764707
  historical:           5.670878666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Brian Kidd Ridley"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Ridley"
    title: "Brian Ridley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kidd_Ridley"
    title: "Brian Kidd Ridley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump