# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erno-rubik
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:39:24.654Z

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name: "Ernő Rubik"
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description: "He built a wooden teaching tool in 1974 and couldn't solve it for a month. By 1983, over 100 million authorized copies of his cube had sold worldwide — with another 50 million knock-offs — and about 50 books existed just to explain how to crack it."
tagline: "Hungarian inventor (born 1944)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ernő Rubik was born 13 July 1944 in Hungary and studied sculpture at the Academy of Applied Arts and Design in Budapest, then architecture at the Technical University. While teaching design at the academy, he built geometric models as a hobby; one prototype used 27 wooden blocks and turned out to be useful for teaching algebraic group theory. In late 1977 Hungary's state trading company began marketing the puzzle, and by 1980 it had spread across the world. He opened a design studio in 1984, producing another hit puzzle toy called Rubik's Magic. In recent years he has turned his attention to science education, working with Beyond Rubik's Cube, the Rubik Learning Initiative, and the Judit Polgar Foundation to pull young students into mathematics and problem solving.