# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lucien-levy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:14:49.515Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lucien-levy"
name: "Lucien Lévy"
slug: "lucien-levy"
description: "Lucien Lévy was a French radio engineer and radio receiver manufacturer.\nHe invented the superheterodyne method of amplifying radio signals, used in almost all AM radio receivers.\nHis patent claim was at first disallowed in the United States in favour of the American Edwin Howard Armstrong, but on appeal Lévy's claim as inventor was accepted in the US."
tagline: "French physicist and engineer (1892-1965)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Lucien_L%C3%A9vy.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1892-03-11"
deathDate: "1965-05-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.29
  momentum:             1.875
  historical:           5.672966666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_L%C3%A9vy"
    title: "Lucien Lévy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A"
    title: "لوسيان ليفي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%89"
    title: "لوسيان ليفى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Levy"
    title: "Lucien Levy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_L%C3%A9vy"
    title: "Lucien Lévy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_L%C3%A9vy"
    title: "Lucien Lévy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1873403"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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