# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gustav-peter-bucky
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:16:16.204Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gustav-peter-bucky"
name: "Gustav Peter Bucky"
slug: "gustav-peter-bucky"
description: "Gustav Peter Bucky was a German-American radiologist who made early contributions to X-ray technique. The Bucky diaphragm and the subsequent Bucky-Potter grid, devices that prevent scattered X-ray particles from reaching the X-ray film, are named for him."
tagline: "German physicist (1880–1963)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1880-09-03"
deathDate: "1963-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.406552
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Peter_Bucky"
    title: "Gustav Peter Bucky"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Peter_Bucky"
    title: "Gustav Peter Bucky"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Bucky"
    title: "Gustav Bucky"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125674"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump