# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-d-lawson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:12:36.277Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-d-lawson"
name: "John D. Lawson"
slug: "john-d-lawson"
description: "John David Lawson FRS was a British engineer and physicist specialized in plasma, particle accelerators and nuclear physics. The Lawson criterion for nuclear fusion and the Lawson–Woodward theorem for particle accelerators is named after him."
tagline: "British engineer and physicist (1923–2008)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1923-04-04"
deathDate: "2008-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.889908256880734
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جون دي لوسون"
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    title: "John David Lawson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump