# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/desire-van-monckhoven
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:11:06.436Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/desire-van-monckhoven"
name: "Désiré van Monckhoven"
slug: "desire-van-monckhoven"
description: "Désiré Charles Emanuel van Monckhoven (1834–1882) was a Belgian chemist, physicist, and photographic researcher. He was also an inventor and author."
tagline: "Belgian chemist, inventor, physicist and photographic researcher (1834–1882)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_van_Monckhoven_(1834-1882).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1834-09-25"
deathDate: "1882-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7692307692307693
  historical:           6.537869333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Désiré van Monckhoven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديسير ڤان مونكخوڤين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_van_Monckhoven"
    title: "Désiré van Monckhoven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%87_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%87%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "دزیره وان مونکهون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_van_Monckhoven"
    title: "Désiré van Monckhoven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_van_Monckhoven"
    title: "Désiré van Monckhoven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Van_Monckhoven"
    title: "Désiré Van Monckhoven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2275763"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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