# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-cooper-hewitt
# Generated: 2026-09-07T23:06:36.829Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-cooper-hewitt"
name: "Peter Cooper Hewitt"
slug: "peter-cooper-hewitt"
description: "Peter Cooper Hewitt was an American electrical engineer and inventor, who invented the first mercury-vapor lamp in 1901. Hewitt was issued U.S. patent 682,692 on September 17, 1901. In 1903, Hewitt created an improved version that possessed higher color qualities which eventually found widespread industrial use."
tagline: "(1861-1921) American electrical engineer who invented the first mercury-vapor lamp"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Cooper_Hewitt.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1861-11-13"
deathDate: "1921-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             10.61953919343304
  historical:           12.52214266666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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