# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-f-chen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:37:43.544Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-f-chen"
name: "Francis F. Chen"
slug: "francis-f-chen"
description: "Francis F. Chen is a Chinese-born American plasma physicist and electrical engineer."
tagline: "American physicist"
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: "1929-11-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.674154666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~ffchen"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_F._Chen"
    title: "Francis F. Chen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرنسيس إف. تشن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرنسيس اف. تشن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B3%95%E8%98%AD%E8%A5%BF%E6%96%AF%C2%B7F%C2%B7%E9%99%B3"
    title: "法蘭西斯·F·陳"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_F._Chen"
    title: "Francis F. Chen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%81_%DA%86%D9%86"
    title: "فرانسیس اف چن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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