# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-j-lofgren
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:42:16.493Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-j-lofgren"
name: "Edward J. Lofgren"
slug: "edward-j-lofgren"
description: "Edward Joseph Lofgren was an American physicist with Swedish heritage in the early days of nuclear physics and elementary particle research at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL). He was born in Chicago. He was an important figure in the breakthroughs that followed the creation of the Bevatron, of which he was the director for a time."
tagline: "Physicist, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Photocopy_of_photograph_%28original_print_located_in_LBNL_Photo_Lab_Collection%29._Photographer_unknown._October_6%2C_1955._BEV-938._ANTI-PROTON_SET-UP_WITH_WORK_GROUP%3B_E._SEGRE%2C_C._HAER_CAL%2C1-BERK%2C4-34.tif/lossy-page1-330px-thumbnail.tif.jpg"
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: "1914-01-18"
deathDate: "2016-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.11
  momentum:             2.307692307692307
  historical:           6.535241333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lofgren"
    title: "Edward Lofgren"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Lofgren"
    title: "Edward J. Lofgren"
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    title: "ادوارد جی لوفگرن"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Lofgren"
    title: "Edward J. Lofgren"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump