# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/poul-la-cour
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:19:34.203Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/poul-la-cour"
name: "Poul la Cour"
slug: "poul-la-cour"
description: "Poul la Cour was a Danish scientist, inventor and educationalist. Today la Cour is especially recognized for his early work on wind power, both experimental work on aerodynamics and practical implementation of wind power plants. He worked most of his life at Askov Folk High School where he developed the historic genetic method of teaching the sciences. Early in his life he was a telegraphic inventor working with multiplex telegraphy."
tagline: "Danish scientist, inventor and educationer (1846–1908)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1846-04-13"
deathDate: "1908-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.545573333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_la_Cour"
    title: "Poul la Cour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_la_Cour"
    title: "Poul la Cour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_la_Cour"
    title: "Poul la Cour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_la_Cour"
    title: "Poul la Cour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_La_Cour"
    title: "Poul La Cour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_La_Cour"
    title: "Poul La Cour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ポール・ラ・クール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1344875"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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