# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-b-whitehead
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:18:22.707Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-b-whitehead"
name: "John B. Whitehead"
slug: "john-b-whitehead"
description: "John Boswell Whitehead was an American electrical engineer and a professor at Johns Hopkins University as well as the dean of the School of Engineering. Whitehead was president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers from 1933 to 1934. In 1941, Whitehead received the IEEE Edison Medal for \"contributions to the field of electrical engineering, his pioneering and development in the field of dielectric research, and his achievements in the advancement of engineering education\"."
tagline: "Academic engineer (1872-1954)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/John_B._Whitehead.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1872-08-18"
deathDate: "1954-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.801368
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جون بي. وايتهيد"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump