# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/felix-pirani
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:07:45.227Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/felix-pirani"
name: "Felix Pirani"
slug: "felix-pirani"
description: "Felix Arnold Edward Pirani was a British theoretical physicist, and professor at King's College London, specialising in gravitational physics and general relativity. Pirani and Hermann Bondi wrote a series of articles, from 1959 to 1989, that established the existence of plane wave solutions for gravitational waves based on general relativity."
tagline: "British physicist (1928-2015)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-02-02"
deathDate: "2015-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Фелікс Пирані"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فيليكس بيرانى"
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    title: "ফেলিক্স পিরানি"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Felix Pirani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Pirani"
    title: "Felix Pirani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Pirani"
    title: "Felix Pirani"
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    title: "Ֆելիքս Պիրանի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Felix Pirani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump