# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-vilenkin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:54:59.357Z

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name: "Alexander Vilenkin"
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description: "Alexander Vilenkin is the Leonard Jane Holmes Bernstein Professor of Evolutionary Science and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University. A theoretical physicist who has been working in the field of cosmology for 25 years, Vilenkin has written over 260 publications."
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birthDate: "1949-05-13"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump