# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chuck-hull
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:05:00.108Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chuck-hull"
name: "Chuck Hull"
slug: "chuck-hull"
description: "Chuck Hull is an American inventor who is the co-founder, executive vice president and chief technology officer for regenerative medicine of 3D Systems. He is one of the inventors of the SLA 3D printer, the first commercial rapid prototyping technology, and the widely used STL file format. He is named on more than 60 U.S. patents as well as other patents around the world in the fields of ion optics and rapid prototyping. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014 and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in February of 2025."
tagline: "American inventor"
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: "1939-05-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.138450666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Халл, Чак"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%83_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "تشاك هال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%83_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "تشاك هال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hull"
    title: "Chuck Hull"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hull"
    title: "Chuck Hull"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hull"
    title: "Chuck Hull"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hull"
    title: "Chuck Hull"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hull"
    title: "Chuck Hull"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traduire"
    title: "Traduire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5115541"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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