# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-simon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:06:15.950Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-simon"
name: "Francis Simon"
slug: "francis-simon"
description: "Sir Francis Simon, was a German and later British physical chemist and physicist who devised the gaseous diffusion method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb."
tagline: "German-British chemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_Francis_Simon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1893-07-02"
deathDate: "1956-10-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump