# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morton-sobell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:16:16.565Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morton-sobell"
name: "Morton Sobell"
slug: "morton-sobell"
description: "Morton Sobell was an American engineer and Soviet spy during and after World War II; he was charged as part of a conspiracy which included Julius Rosenberg and his wife, Ethel Rosenberg. Sobell worked on military and government contracts with General Electric and Reeves Instrument Corporation in the 1940s, including during World War II. Sobell was tried and convicted of espionage in 1951 and sentenced to 30 years in prison."
tagline: "American spy for the Soviet Union (1917-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Morton_Sobell_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917-04-11"
deathDate: "2018-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.1
  momentum:             1.038251366120218
  historical:           7.489964000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Morton Sobell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Sobell"
    title: "Morton Sobell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Sobell"
    title: "Morton Sobell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Sobell"
    title: "Morton Sobell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Sobell"
    title: "Morton Sobell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Sobell"
    title: "Morton Sobell"
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    title: "Собелл, Мортон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Sobell"
    title: "Morton Sobell"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump