# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karoly-simonyi
# Generated: 2026-09-04T22:03:01.072Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karoly-simonyi"
name: "Károly Simonyi"
slug: "karoly-simonyi"
description: "Károly Simonyi was a Hungarian physicist and writer. He was professor of electrical engineering at Technical University of Budapest and the author of the popular tabletop book A Cultural History of Physics."
tagline: "Hungarian physicist and writer (1916-2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simonyi_K%C3%A1roly_arck%C3%A9pe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1916-10-18"
deathDate: "2001-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "كارولى سيمونى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1roly_Simonyi"
    title: "Károly Simonyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Károly Simonyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonyi_K%C3%A1roly"
    title: "Simonyi Károly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1roly_Simonyi"
    title: "Károly Simonyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1roly_Simonyi"
    title: "Károly Simonyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шимоньи, Карой"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump