# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gene-dresselhaus
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:55:29.801Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gene-dresselhaus"
name: "Gene Dresselhaus"
slug: "gene-dresselhaus"
description: "Gene Frederick Dresselhaus was an American condensed matter physicist. He is known as a pioneer of spintronics and for his 1955 discovery of the eponymous Dresselhaus effect."
tagline: "American physicist (1929–2021); physicist at MIT Magnet Lab"
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: "1929-11-07"
deathDate: "2021-09-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.405436
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  51
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Dresselhaus"
    title: "Gene Dresselhaus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Dresselhaus"
    title: "Gene Dresselhaus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61940452"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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