# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aleksandr-gurevich
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:30:39.739Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aleksandr-gurevich"
name: "Aleksandr Gurevich"
slug: "aleksandr-gurevich"
description: "Aleksandr Viktorovich Gurevich was a Soviet and Russian physicist. In 1992 he proposed the theory of lightning initiation known as the \"runaway breakdown\"."
tagline: "Russian physicist (1930–2023)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-09-19"
deathDate: "2023-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.58
  momentum:             17.4941724941725
  historical:           5.674226666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Aleksandr Gurevich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الكسندر جورفيتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wiktorowitsch_Gurewitsch"
    title: "Alexander Wiktorowitsch Gurewitsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Гуревич, Александр Викторович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%86"
    title: "الکساندر گورویچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A8_%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A5'"
    title: "אלכסנדר גורביץ'"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4152288"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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