# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-madey
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:20:20.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-madey"
name: "John Madey"
slug: "john-madey"
description: "John M. J. Madey was a professor of physics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a former director of the Free Electron Laser Laboratory at Duke University, and formerly a professor (research) at Stanford University. He is best known for his development of the free-electron laser (FEL) at Stanford University in the 1970s."
tagline: "American physicist (1943-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Madey_signature_(Sep_2010).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-02-28"
deathDate: "2016-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.671814666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Madey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون مادي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون مادى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%84%E7%BF%B0%C2%B7%E6%A2%85%E8%BF%AA"
    title: "約翰·梅迪"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Madey"
    title: "John Madey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Мэйди, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1550900"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump