# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-sachs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:35:05.476Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-sachs"
name: "Alexander Sachs"
slug: "alexander-sachs"
description: "Alexander Sachs was an American economist and banker. In October 1939 he delivered the Einstein–Szilard letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, suggesting that nuclear-fission research ought to be pursued with a view to possibly constructing nuclear weapons, should they prove feasible, in view of the likelihood that Nazi Germany would do so. This led to the initiation of the United States' Manhattan Project."
tagline: "American banker (1893–1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Sachs_LCCN2016878361.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: "1893-08-01"
deathDate: "1973-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.36
  momentum:             1.612903225806452
  historical:           7.882866666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Sachs"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Sachs"
    title: "Alexander Sachs"
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  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Sachs"
    title: "Alexander Sachs"
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    title: "Alexander Sachs"
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    title: "Александр Сакс"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump