# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-laurer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:02:02.184Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-laurer"
name: "George Laurer"
slug: "george-laurer"
description: "George Joseph Laurer III was an American engineer for IBM at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. He published 20 bulletins, held 28 patents and developed the Universal Product Code (UPC) in the early 1970s. He devised the coding and pattern used for the UPC, based on Joe Woodland's more general idea for barcodes."
tagline: "American inventor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GeorgeLaurer1987.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1925-09-23"
deathDate: "2019-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.05
  momentum:             0.2467105263157895
  historical:           10.95576133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "George Laurer"
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    title: "George Laurer"
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    title: "George Laurer"
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    title: "Џорџ Лаурер"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump