# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lyman-james-briggs
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:28:34.425Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lyman-james-briggs"
name: "Lyman James Briggs"
slug: "lyman-james-briggs"
description: "Lyman James Briggs was an American engineer, physicist and administrator. He was the third director of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) during the Great Depression and chairman of the Uranium Committee before America entered the Second World War. The Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University is named in his honor."
tagline: "American engineer (1874–1963)"
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birthDate: "1874-05-07"
deathDate: "1963-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump