# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-baptiste-du-hamel
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:48:46.934Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-baptiste-du-hamel"
name: "Jean-Baptiste du Hamel"
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description: "Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel, Duhamel or du Hamel was a French cleric and natural philosopher of the late seventeenth century, and the first secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences. As its first secretary, he influenced the initial work of the Académie, but his legacy and influence on the Académie and the growth of science in France is mixed."
tagline: "French philosopher (1624–1706)"
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birthDate: "1624-06-11"
deathDate: "1706-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump