# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-thomas-bacon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:01:13.106Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-thomas-bacon"
name: "Francis Thomas Bacon"
slug: "francis-thomas-bacon"
description: "Francis Thomas \"Tom\" Bacon OBE FREng FRS was an English engineer who in 1932 developed the first practical hydrogen–oxygen fuel cell. It is used to generate power for space capsules and satellites."
tagline: "English engineer (1904–1992)"
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: "1904-12-21"
deathDate: "1992-05-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.45
  momentum:             2.580645161290323
  historical:           8.749641333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(wetenschapper%2C_1904)"
    title: "Francis Bacon (wetenschapper, 1904)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Thomas_Bacon"
    title: "Francis Thomas Bacon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Thomas_Bacon"
    title: "Francis Thomas Bacon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Thomas_Bacon"
    title: "Francis Thomas Bacon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Thomas_Bacon"
    title: "Francis Thomas Bacon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Thomas_Bacon"
    title: "Francis Thomas Bacon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Thomas_Bacon"
    title: "Francis Thomas Bacon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Thomas_Bacon"
    title: "Francis Thomas Bacon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3"
    title: "フランシス・トーマス・ベーコン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Thomas_Bacon"
    title: "Francis Thomas Bacon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1336298"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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