# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolf-kompfner
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:01:10.709Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudolf-kompfner"
name: "Rudolf Kompfner"
slug: "rudolf-kompfner"
description: "Rudolf Kompfner was an Austrian-born inventor, physicist and architect, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave tube (TWT)."
tagline: "Austrian-born engineer and physicist (1909-1977)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1909-05-16"
deathDate: "1977-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.82
  momentum:             0.2525252525252525
  historical:           11.407308
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "魯道夫·康夫納"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رودولف كومپفنير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "রুডলফ কম্ফনার"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Kompfner"
    title: "Rudolf Kompfner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Kompfner"
    title: "Rudolf Kompfner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Kompfner"
    title: "Rudolf Kompfner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ռուդոլֆ Կոմպֆներ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%95%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ルドルフ・コンフナー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%ABdolfs_Kompfners"
    title: "Rūdolfs Kompfners"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Kompfner"
    title: "Rudolf Kompfner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Kompfner"
    title: "Rudolf Kompfner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Kompfner"
    title: "Rudolf Kompfner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Kompfner"
    title: "Rudolf Kompfner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Компфнер, Рудольф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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