# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karel-bossart
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:02:03.723Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karel-bossart"
name: "Karel Bossart"
slug: "karel-bossart"
description: "Karel Jan Bossart was an innovative rocket designer and creator of the Atlas ICBM. His achievements rank alongside those of Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev. But as most of his work was for the United States Air Force and was therefore classified, his achievements are not widely known."
tagline: "Belgian American rocket scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karel_Jan_Bossart.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1904-02-09"
deathDate: "1975-08-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.07
  momentum:             0.1293103448275862
  historical:           5.275126666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Jan_Bossart"
    title: "Karel Jan Bossart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Bossart"
    title: "Karel Bossart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Bossart"
    title: "Karel Bossart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Jan_Bossart"
    title: "Karel Jan Bossart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Bossart"
    title: "Karel Bossart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Jan_Bossart"
    title: "Karel Jan Bossart"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2107369"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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