# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-j-low
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:20:06.058Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-j-low"
name: "Frank J. Low"
slug: "frank-j-low"
description: "Frank James Low was an American solid state physicist who became a leader in the new field of infrared astronomy, after inventing the gallium doped germanium bolometer in 1961. This detector extended the range of the observable spectrum to much longer wavelengths."
tagline: "American astronomer (1933–2009)"
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: "1933-11-23"
deathDate: "2009-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.2
  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.603528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "فرانك جاي لو"
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    title: "فرانك جاى لو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frank James Low"
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    title: "فرانک جی لو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_James_Low"
    title: "Frank James Low"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_James_Low"
    title: "Frank James Low"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Low"
    title: "Frank Low"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_James_Low"
    title: "Frank James Low"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_James_Low"
    title: "Frank James Low"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump