# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-heroult
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:51:45.913Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-heroult"
name: "Paul Héroult"
slug: "paul-heroult"
description: "Paul (Louis-Toussaint) Héroult was a French scientist. He was one of the inventors of the Hall-Héroult process for smelting aluminium, and developed the first successful commercial electric arc furnace. He lived in Thury-Harcourt, Normandy."
tagline: "French inventor (1863–1914)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PaulHeroult.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1863-04-10"
deathDate: "1914-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.89683466666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump