# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-b-jewett
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:24:50.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-b-jewett"
name: "Frank B. Jewett"
slug: "frank-b-jewett"
description: "Frank Baldwin Jewett worked as an engineer for American Telegraph and Telephone where his work demonstrated transatlantic radio telephony using a vacuum-tube transmitter. He was also a physicist and the first president of Bell Labs."
tagline: "American physicist (1879–1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_B_Jewett_c1940_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1879-09-05"
deathDate: "1949-11-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.742297333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "فرانك جويت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_B._Jewett"
    title: "Frank B. Jewett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_B._Jewett"
    title: "Frank B. Jewett"
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    title: "فرانک بی جیوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_B._Jewett"
    title: "Frank B. Jewett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_B._Jewett"
    title: "Franciscus B. Jewett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Jewett"
    title: "Frank Jewett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Baldwin_Jewett"
    title: "Frank Baldwin Jewett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%97%E5%85%B0%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E9%B2%8D%E5%BE%B7%E6%B8%A9%C2%B7%E6%9C%B1%E4%BC%8A%E7%89%B9"
    title: "弗兰克·鲍德温·朱伊特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump