# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-oatley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:27:20.927Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-oatley"
name: "Charles Oatley"
slug: "charles-oatley"
description: "Sir Charles William Oatley was Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge, 1960–1971, and developer of one of the first commercial scanning electron microscopes. He was also a founder member of the Royal Academy of Engineering."
tagline: "British physicist and electrical engineer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/Sir_Charles_Oatley.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1904-02-14"
deathDate: "1996-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             16.48760330578513
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  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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