# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-b-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:01:48.789Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-b-johnson"
name: "John B. Johnson"
slug: "john-b-johnson"
description: "John Erik Bertrand Johnson was a Swedish-born American electrical engineer and physicist. He created the first cathode-ray tube oscilloscope and detailed a fundamental source of random interference with information traveling on wires, now called Johnson–Nyquist noise."
tagline: "Swedish scientist (1887-1970)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/John_Bertrand_Johnson.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1887-10-02"
deathDate: "1970-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.479820627802691
  historical:           8.075882666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Johan Erik Bertrand Johansson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bertrand_Johnson"
    title: "John Bertrand Johnson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump