# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-van-rysselberghe
# Generated: 2026-09-07T22:30:14.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-van-rysselberghe"
name: "François Van Rysselberghe"
slug: "francois-van-rysselberghe"
description: "François van Rysselberghe was a Belgian scientist who was the forerunner or the inventor of numerous devices in the fields of meteorology and telephony. He invented, in particular, a system allowing several telephone signals to pass through telegraph cables. The generalization of the Van Rysselberghe System in Belgium in 1884, and then abroad, promoted the development of this new mode of communication, making it a pioneer of long-distance telephone communications."
tagline: "Belgian scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fran%C3%A7ois_Van_Rysselberghe_(1846-1893).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1846"
deathDate: "1893"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.88
  momentum:             15
  historical:           3.268862666666667
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  58
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_van_Rysselberghe"
    title: "François van Rysselberghe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Van_Rysselberghe"
    title: "François Van Rysselberghe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_van_Rysselberghe"
    title: "François van Rysselberghe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55233309"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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