# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/murray-raney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:07:34.853Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/murray-raney"
name: "Murray Raney"
slug: "murray-raney"
description: "Murray Raney was an American mechanical engineer born in Carrollton, Kentucky. He was the developer of a nickel catalyst that became known as Raney nickel, which is often used in industrial processes and scientific research for the hydrogenation of multiple covalent bonds present in molecules."
tagline: "American engineer (1885-1966)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/Murray_Raney.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1885-10-14"
deathDate: "1966-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Murray Raney"
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    title: "Murray Raney"
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    title: "Murray Raney"
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    title: "مورای رینی"
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    title: "Murray Raney"
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    title: "Murray Raney"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump