# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-melsens
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:29:10.831Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-melsens"
name: "Louis Melsens"
slug: "louis-melsens"
description: "Louis Henri Frédéric Melsens was a Belgian physicist and chemist. Ca. 1851, he became professor of chemistry at the Royal Veterinary School of Cureghem in Anderlecht, Brussels. Melsens applied the principle of the Faraday cage to lightning conductors and invented tincture of iodine for disinfection. In medical circles he became internationally famous for his research on oral administration of potassium iodide as a cure for mercury or lead poisoning."
tagline: "Chemist, physicist (1814–1886)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Louis_Melsens.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1814-07-11"
deathDate: "1886-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.802844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "لويس ميلسنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Louis Melsens"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Melsens"
    title: "Louis Melsens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Melsens"
    title: "Louis Melsens"
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    title: "Мельсенс, Луи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2691744"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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