# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/f-w-jordan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:47:22.137Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/f-w-jordan"
name: "F. W. Jordan"
slug: "f-w-jordan"
description: "Frank Wilfred Jordan was a British physicist who together with William Henry Eccles invented the flip-flop circuit in 1918. This circuit became the basis for electronic binary data storage in computers."
tagline: "English physicist (1881-1941)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1881-10-06"
deathDate: "1941-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.669726666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Jordan"
    title: "F. W. Jordan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wilfred_Jordan"
    title: "Frank Wilfred Jordan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_W._Jordan"
    title: "Frank W. Jordan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%BA_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4"
    title: "Джордан, Фрэнк Уилфред"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%E3%83%BBW%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3"
    title: "F・W・ジョーダン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wilfred_Jordan"
    title: "Frank Wilfred Jordan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1444393"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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