# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-baekeland
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:13:38.476Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-baekeland"
name: "Leo Baekeland"
slug: "leo-baekeland"
description: "Leo Hendrik Baekeland was a Belgian chemist. Educated in Belgium and Germany, he spent most of his career in the United States. He is best known for the inventions of Velox photographic paper in 1893, and Bakelite in 1907. He has been called \"The Father of the Plastics Industry\" for his invention of Bakelite, an inexpensive, non-flammable and versatile plastic, which marked the beginning of the modern plastics industry."
tagline: "Belgium American inventor (1863-1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leo_Baekeland_ca_1906.jpg?width=1200"
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birthDate: "1863-11-14"
deathDate: "1944-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump