# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-furth
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:02:07.934Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-furth"
name: "Harold Furth"
slug: "harold-furth"
description: "Harold Paul Furth was an Austrian-American physicist who was a pioneer in leading the American efforts to harness thermonuclear fusion for the generation of electricity. He died of a heart ailment on 21 February 2002."
tagline: "American astronomer (1930-2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Harold_Furth.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1930-01-13"
deathDate: "2002-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.727272727272728
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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