# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-von-guericke
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:06:35.725Z

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name: "Otto von Guericke"
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description: "He made nothing famous. Otto von Guericke turned the vacuum — long dismissed as impossible — into the hardest proof of atmospheric pressure: air crushing copper hemispheres so tightly that horses couldn't pull them apart."
tagline: "German scientist, inventor, and politician (1602-1686)"
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birthDate: "1602-11-20"
deathDate: "1686-05-11"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1602, Guericke was a German scientist who built his reputation on what wasn't there. He developed experimental methods to create and demonstrate the physics of the vacuum, a concept most still rejected. His work on atmospheric pressure, electrostatic repulsion, and repeatable experiments helped pull natural philosophy toward something measurably real. He argued for action at a distance and absolute space, ideas that put him ahead of the consensus. He died in 1686, having spent decades proving that emptiness could move the world.