# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-isaac-de-rivaz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:37:24.206Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-isaac-de-rivaz"
name: "François Isaac de Rivaz"
slug: "francois-isaac-de-rivaz"
description: "François Isaac de Rivaz was a French-born Swiss inventor and a politician. He invented a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine with electric ignition and described it in a French patent published in 1807. In 1808 he fitted it into a primitive working vehicle – \"the world's first internal combustion powered automobile\"."
tagline: "Swiss inventor and politician (1752-1828)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Isaac_de_Rivaz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1752-12-19"
deathDate: "1828-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4615384615384617
  historical:           14.241256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "François Isaac de Rivaz"
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    title: "Isaac de Rivaz"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump