# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ronald-richter
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:41:02.569Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ronald-richter"
name: "Ronald Richter"
slug: "ronald-richter"
description: "Ronald Richter was an Austrian-born German scientist, later also an Argentine citizen, who became infamous in connection with the Argentine Huemul Project and the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA). The project was intended to generate energy from controlled nuclear fusion in the 1950s, during the presidency of Juan Perón. According to Perón’s 1951 announcement, Richter's project would deliver cheap energy in containers of half-liter and liter size. Skepticism arose to Richter’s claims both internally and within Argentina. An independent review panel organized by Perón determined Richter’s research was spurious."
tagline: "Austrian scientist (1909-1991)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ronald_Richter_y_Per%C3%B3n.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Argentina"
  isoCode: "AR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1909-10-11"
deathDate: "1991-12-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.718074666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Richter"
    title: "Ronald Richter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "رونالد ريختر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Richter"
    title: "Ronald Richter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Richter"
    title: "Ronald Richter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Richter"
    title: "Ronald Richter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Richter"
    title: "Ronald Richter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7365230"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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