# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-h-nayfeh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:15:17.660Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-h-nayfeh"
name: "Ali H. Nayfeh"
slug: "ali-h-nayfeh"
description: "Ali Hasan Nayfeh was a Palestinian-Jordanian mathematician, mechanical engineer and physicist. He is regarded as the most influential scholar and scientist in the area of applied nonlinear dynamics in mechanics and engineering. He was the inaugural winner of the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award, and was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in mechanical engineering. His pioneering work in nonlinear dynamics has been influential in the construction and maintenance of machines and structures that are common in daily life, such as ships, cranes, bridges, buildings, skyscrapers, jet engines, rocket engines, aircraft and spacecraft."
tagline: "American aerospace engineer"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-12-21"
deathDate: "2017-03-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1628664495114007
  historical:           7.889130666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www2.esm.vt.edu/~anayfeh/"
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    title: "Ali Hasan Nayfeh"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_H._Nayfeh"
    title: "Ali H. Nayfeh"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Hasan_Nayfeh"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump