# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amanda-weltman
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:24:05.534Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amanda-weltman"
name: "Amanda Weltman"
slug: "amanda-weltman"
description: "Amanda Weltman is a South African theoretical physicist. She co-authored a series of papers proposing \"chameleon gravity\" to explain the existence of dark energy. She is a professor and South African Research Chair at the University of Cape Town."
tagline: "South African theoretical physicist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1979"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.004176
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "أماندا ويلتمان"
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    title: "Amanda Weltman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Amanda Weltman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Weltman"
    title: "Amanda Weltman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Weltman"
    title: "Amanda Weltman"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Weltman"
    title: "Amanda Weltman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "அமந்தா வெல்ட்மன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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