# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/juris-upatnieks
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:16:43.914Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/juris-upatnieks"
name: "Juris Upatnieks"
slug: "juris-upatnieks"
description: "Juris Upatnieks was a Latvian-American physicist and inventor, and pioneer in the field of holography. He was nominated for the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Emmett Leith but did not win."
tagline: "Latvian-American physicist and inventor (born 1936), one of the inventors of the hologram"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_Juris_Upatnieks_1963.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1936-05-07"
deathDate: "2026-05-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump