# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-placzek
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:07:14.138Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-placzek"
name: "George Placzek"
slug: "george-placzek"
description: "George Placzek was a Czech physicist. His work involved a fundamental theory of Raman scattering, molecular spectroscopy in gases and liquids, neutron physics and mathematical physics."
tagline: "Physicist (1905-1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Georg_Placzek_(1905_1955).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1905-09-26"
deathDate: "1955-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump