# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/c-v-boys
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:12:25.848Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/c-v-boys"
name: "C. V. Boys"
slug: "c-v-boys"
description: "Sir Charles Vernon Boys, FRS was a British physicist, known for his careful and innovative experimental work in the fields of thermodynamics and high-speed photography, and as a popular science communicator through his books, inventions, and his public lectures for children."
tagline: "British physicist (1855-1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CVBoys.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1855-03-15"
deathDate: "1944-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.031390134529148
  historical:           15.95104533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump