# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-f-post
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:48:15.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-f-post"
name: "Richard F. Post"
slug: "richard-f-post"
description: "Richard Freeman Post was an American physicist notable for his work in nuclear fusion, plasma physics, magnetic mirrors, magnetic levitation, magnetic bearing design and direct energy conversion."
tagline: "American physicist (1918-2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Richard_Freeman_Post%2C_c._1982%2C_Niels_Bohr_Library_%26_Archives.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1918-11-14"
deathDate: "2015-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.206305688827964
  historical:           3.992193333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ريتشارد إف. بوست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Post"
    title: "Richard Post"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Post"
    title: "Richard F. Post"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Post"
    title: "Richard Post"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1538262"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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