# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-gorban
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:27:36.733Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-gorban"
name: "Alexander Gorban"
slug: "alexander-gorban"
description: "Alexander Nikolaevich Gorban was a scientist of Russian origin, working in the United Kingdom. He was a professor at the University of Leicester, and director of its Mathematical Modeling Centre. Gorban contributed to many areas of fundamental and applied science, including statistical physics, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, machine learning and mathematical biology."
tagline: "Russian mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gorban3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952-04-19"
deathDate: "2025-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.05
  momentum:             3.288135593220339
  historical:           4.614112
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.math.le.ac.uk/people/ag153/homepage/"
sources:
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    title: "الكسندر نيكولايفيتش جوربان"
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    title: "الکساندر قوربان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gorban"
    title: "Alexander Gorban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gorban"
    title: "Alexander Gorban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_(%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BA%2C_1952)"
    title: "Горбань, Александр Николаевич (физик, 1952)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump