# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ludwig-a-colding
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:12:16.119Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ludwig-a-colding"
name: "Ludwig A. Colding"
slug: "ludwig-a-colding"
description: "Ludwig August Colding was a Danish civil engineer and physicist who articulated the principle of conservation of energy contemporaneously with, and independently of, James Prescott Joule and Julius Robert von Mayer though his contribution was largely overlooked and neglected."
tagline: "Danish engineer and physicist (1815-1888)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ludvig_August_Colding.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1815-07-13"
deathDate: "1888-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.206336
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "L.A. Colding"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_A._Colding"
    title: "Ludwig A. Colding"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Colding"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Colding"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_A._Colding"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump