# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hopkinson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:55:35.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-hopkinson"
name: "John Hopkinson"
slug: "john-hopkinson"
description: "John Hopkinson, FRS, was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE twice in 1890 and 1896. He invented the three-wire (three-phase) system for the distribution of electrical power, for which he was granted a patent in 1882. He also worked in many areas of electromagnetism and electrostatics, and in 1890 was appointed professor of electrical engineering at King's College London, where he was also director of the Siemens Laboratory."
tagline: "British physicist and electrical engineer (1849–1898)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Hopkinson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1849-07-27"
deathDate: "1898-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             31.85404339250493
  historical:           15.08830266666667
  currentAttention:     1.04
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump