# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-bitzer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:47:36.037Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-bitzer"
name: "Donald Bitzer"
slug: "donald-bitzer"
description: "Donald Lester Bitzer was an American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He was the co-inventor of the plasma display and was widely regarded as the \"father of PLATO\"."
tagline: "American electrical engineer (1934–2024)"
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: "1934-01-01"
deathDate: "2024-12-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.19
  momentum:             5.384615384615384
  historical:           5.474550666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%83%84%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ドナルド・ビッツァー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_L._Bitzer"
    title: "Donald L. Bitzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Bitzer"
    title: "Donald Bitzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Bitzer"
    title: "Donald Bitzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Bitzer"
    title: "Donald Bitzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Bitzer"
    title: "Donald Bitzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q956396"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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