# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ann-nelson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:29:36.486Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ann-nelson"
name: "Ann Nelson"
slug: "ann-nelson"
description: "Ann Elizabeth Nelson was an American particle physicist and professor of physics in the Particle Theory Group at the University of Washington from 1994 until her death. Nelson received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004, and she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2012. She was a recipient of the 2018 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, presented annually by the American Physical Society and considered one of the most prestigious prizes in physics."
tagline: "American particle physicist (1958–2019)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/%22Ann_Nelson%2C_photo_from_University_of_Washington.jpg%22.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1958-04-29"
deathDate: "2019-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://faculty.washington.edu/aenelson/"
sources:
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    title: "Нельсон, Энн"
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    title: "Ann Nelson"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Nelson"
    title: "Ann Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Nelson"
    title: "Ann Nelson"
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  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Nelson"
    title: "Ann Nelson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump