# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peder-oluf-pedersen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:38:47.175Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peder-oluf-pedersen"
name: "Peder Oluf Pedersen"
slug: "peder-oluf-pedersen"
description: "Peder Oluf Pedersen was a Danish engineer and physicist. He is notable for his work on electrotechnology, his cooperation with Valdemar Poulsen on the developmental work on Wire recorders, which he called a telegraphone, the arc converter known as the Poulsen Arc Transmitter, and his work on electrical currents in the ionosphere."
tagline: "Danish engineer and physicist (1874–1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PO_Pedersen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1874-06-19"
deathDate: "1941-08-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.194805194805193
  historical:           8.737653333333334
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Peder Oluf Pedersen"
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  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.O._Pedersen"
    title: "P.O. Pedersen"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peder_Oluf_Pedersen"
    title: "Peder Oluf Pedersen"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peder_Oluf_Pedersen"
    title: "Peder Oluf Pedersen"
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    title: "Peder Oluf Pedersen"
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    title: "Peder Oluf Pedersen"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peder_Oluf_Pedersen"
    title: "Peder Oluf Pedersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peder_Oluf_Pedersen"
    title: "Peder Oluf Pedersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peder_Oluf_Pedersen"
    title: "Peder Oluf Pedersen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%84"
    title: "Педерсен, Педер Олаф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump