# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hertha-ayrton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:25:44.225Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/hertha-ayrton"
name: "Hertha Ayrton"
slug: "hertha-ayrton"
description: "Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton, known in her adult life as Hertha Ayrton, was an English electrical engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette. She was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripple marks in sand and water."
tagline: "English electrical engineer (1854–1923)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1854-04-28"
deathDate: "1923-08-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump