# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-pulfrich
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:22:18.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-pulfrich"
name: "Carl Pulfrich"
slug: "carl-pulfrich"
description: "Carl P. Pulfrich was a German physicist, noted for advancements in optics made as a researcher for the Carl Zeiss company in Jena around 1880, and for documenting the Pulfrich effect, a psycho-optical phenomenon that can be used to create a type of 3-D visual effect. Carl Pulfrich was the brother-in-law of Heinrich Hertz."
tagline: "German physicist (1858–1927)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carl_Pulfrich.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1858-09-24"
deathDate: "1927-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.74
  momentum:             0.8130081300813008
  historical:           7.404788
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Pulfrich"
    title: "Carl Pulfrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "كارل بولفريك"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "كارل بولفريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Pulfrich"
    title: "Carl Pulfrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Pulfrich"
    title: "Carl Pulfrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B4"
    title: "کارل پولفریش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Pulfrich"
    title: "Carl Pulfrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Pulfrich"
    title: "Carl Pulfrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85047"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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