# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-selby-hele-shaw
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:30:32.780Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-selby-hele-shaw"
name: "Henry Selby Hele-Shaw"
slug: "henry-selby-hele-shaw"
description: "Henry Selby Hele-Shaw FRS (1854–1941) was an English mechanical and automobile engineer. He was the inventor of the variable-pitch propeller, which contributed to British success in the Battle of Britain in 1940, and he experimented with flows through thin cells. Flows through such configurations are named in his honour. He was also a co-founder of Victaulic."
tagline: "British engineer (1854–1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_Selby_Hele-Shaw_-_Page's_Magazine_1902.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1854"
deathDate: "1941-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.671814666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "הנרי סלבי הלה-שו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Selby_Hele-Shaw"
    title: "Henry Selby Hele-Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Selby_Hele-Shaw"
    title: "Henry Selby Hele-Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хел-Шоу, Генри Селби"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%98%E3%83%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%AB%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ヘンリー・セルビー・ヘル＝ショー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Selby_Hele-Shaw"
    title: "Henry Selby Hele-Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1607253"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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