# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-sokal
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:11:58.796Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-sokal"
name: "Alan Sokal"
slug: "alan-sokal"
description: "Alan David Sokal is an American professor of mathematics at University College London and professor emeritus of physics at New York University. He works with statistical mechanics and combinatorics."
tagline: "American physicist and mathematician"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1955-01-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump