# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alar-toomre
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:49:14.648Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alar-toomre"
name: "Alar Toomre"
slug: "alar-toomre"
description: "Alar Toomre is an American astronomer and mathematician. He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Toomre's research is focused on the dynamics of galaxies. He is a 1984 MacArthur Fellow."
tagline: "American-Estonian astronomer and mathematician (born 1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alar_Toomre.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-02-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.321428571428572
  historical:           9.609936
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Алар Тоомре"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ألار تومر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alar Toomre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Αλάρ Τόομρε"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alar_Toomre"
    title: "Alar Toomre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alar_Toomre"
    title: "Alar Toomre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%87"
    title: "آلار تومره"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alar_Toomre"
    title: "Alar Toomre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alar_Toomre"
    title: "Alar Toomre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%80%D0%B5%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Тоомре, Алар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alar_Toomre"
    title: "Alar Toomre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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