# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-ulrich-villard
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:07:06.917Z

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name: "Paul Ulrich Villard"
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description: "Paul Ulrich Villard was a French chemist and physicist. He discovered gamma rays in 1900 while studying the radiation emanating from radium."
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country:
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birthDate: "1860-09-28"
deathDate: "1934-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump