# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emmett-leith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:58:34.636Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emmett-leith"
name: "Emmett Leith"
slug: "emmett-leith"
description: "Emmett Norman Leith was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and, with Juris Upatnieks of the University of Michigan, the co-inventor of three-dimensional holography."
tagline: "American physicist and engineer (1927–2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_Emmett_Leith_1963.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1927-03-12"
deathDate: "2005-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump