# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/claude-beck
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:23:59.664Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/claude-beck"
name: "Claude Beck"
slug: "claude-beck"
description: "Claude Schaeffer Beck was a pioneer cardiac surgeon, famous for innovating various cardiac surgery techniques, and performing the first defibrillation in 1947. He was the first American professor of cardiovascular surgery, from 1952 through 1965. He was a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1952."
tagline: "American cardiac surgeon and professor of cardiovascular surgery (1894–1971)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Claude_S._Beck.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1894-11-08"
deathDate: "1971"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.746725333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BA%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4"
    title: "Бек, Клод"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "كلود بيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_S._Beck"
    title: "Claude S. Beck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Beck"
    title: "Claude Beck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A8%DA%A9"
    title: "کلاد بک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Beck"
    title: "Claude Beck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Beck"
    title: "Claude Beck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1590825"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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