# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willoughby-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:40:08.996Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willoughby-smith"
name: "Willoughby Smith"
slug: "willoughby-smith"
description: "Willoughby Smith was an English electrical engineer who discovered the photoconductivity of the element selenium. This discovery led to the invention of photoelectric cells, including those used in the earliest television systems."
tagline: "British engineer (1828–1891)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willoughby_Smith.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1828-04-06"
deathDate: "1891-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.71
  momentum:             0.5978260869565218
  historical:           10.74737333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump