# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-rie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:55:18.499Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-rie"
name: "Peter Rieß"
slug: "peter-rie"
description: "Peter Theophil Riess was a German physicist, known mostly for his work in electricity, particularly friction electricity, but also in the field of electromagnetic induction. In the latter work he developed two devices, the spark micrometer and the Riess spiral coils, both of which were used by Heinrich Hertz in his experiments to prove the propagation of electromagnetic waves."
tagline: "German physicist (1805–1883)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/GesNat486Riess.jpg/330px-GesNat486Riess.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1805-06-27"
deathDate: "1883-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.97
  momentum:             8.723404255319151
  historical:           4.803168
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "بيتر ريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rie%C3%9F"
    title: "Peter Rieß"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Theophil_Riess"
    title: "Peter Theophil Riess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Рис, Петер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Riess"
    title: "Peter Riess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92503"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump