# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-petzval
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:09:49.507Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-petzval"
name: "Joseph Petzval"
slug: "joseph-petzval"
description: "Joseph Petzval was a mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics. He was born in the town of Szepesbéla in the Kingdom of Hungary."
tagline: "Slovak physicist, mathematician and inventor (1807-1891)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Luckhardt%2C_Fritz_-_Dr._Josef_Petzval_(Zeno_Fotografie).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1807-01-06"
deathDate: "1891-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.48
  momentum:             0.7812500000000001
  historical:           19.76188133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ёзэф Пэцваль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Յոզեֆ Պետցվալ"
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    title: "Joseph Petzval"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump