# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francisco-antonio-de-almeida-junior
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:07:13.179Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francisco-antonio-de-almeida-junior"
name: "Francisco Antônio de Almeida Júnior"
slug: "francisco-antonio-de-almeida-junior"
description: "Francisco Antônio de Almeida Júnior was a Brazilian astronomer, engineer and university professor during the latter half of the 19th century. Almeida was part of a commission tasked with calculating the stellar parallax of the Sun during the 1874 transit of Venus. Almeida was an important figure in the development of cinematography and he was the first known Brazilian to visit Japan and publish a book about his sojourn in China and Japan."
tagline: "Brazilian engineer and astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francisco_Ant%C3%B4nio_de_Almeida.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1851-05-04"
deathDate: "1928-09-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.935997333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Ant%C3%B4nio_de_Almeida_J%C3%BAnior"
    title: "Francisco Antônio de Almeida Júnior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Ant%C3%B4nio_de_Almeida_J%C3%BAnior"
    title: "Francisco Antônio de Almeida Júnior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%8B%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8B%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AB"
    title: "フランシスコ・アントニオ・デ・アルメイダ・ジュニオル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Ant%C3%B4nio_de_Almeida_J%C3%BAnior"
    title: "Francisco Antônio de Almeida Júnior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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