# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marie-killick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:00:38.539Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marie-killick"
name: "Marie Killick"
slug: "marie-killick"
description: "Marie Louise Killick was an English audio engineer who patented the truncated-tip sapphire stylus in 1945 for playing gramophone records. The tradename of her invention was Sapphox."
tagline: "English audio engineer who patented the truncated-tip sapphire stylus in 1945 for playing gramophone records"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-02-08"
deathDate: "1964-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           33.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.734701333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Louise_Killick"
    title: "Marie Louise Killick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "مارى كيليك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Killick"
    title: "Marie Killick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Killick"
    title: "Marie Killick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Killick"
    title: "Marie Killick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Killick"
    title: "Marie Killick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Killick"
    title: "Marie Killick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48988"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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