# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/prokop-divis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:14:33.480Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/prokop-divis"
name: "Prokop Diviš"
slug: "prokop-divis"
description: "Prokop Diviš O.Praem. was a Czech canon regular, theologian, and natural scientist. In an effort to prevent thunderstorms, he inadvertently developed one of the earliest grounded lightning rods."
tagline: "Czech physicist, inventor and roman catholic priest (1698-1765)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Vil%C3%ADmek_-_Prokop_Divi%C5%A1_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1698-03-26"
deathDate: "1765-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.23
  momentum:             4.513274336283186
  historical:           12.95345733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Prokop Diviš"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Prokop Diviš"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokop_Divi%C5%A1"
    title: "Prokop Diviš"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius_Divisch"
    title: "Procopius Divisch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokop_Divisch"
    title: "Prokop Divisch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Václav Prokop Diviš"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дивиш, Прокоп"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Prokop Diviš"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump