# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-zajonc
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:55:23.507Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-zajonc"
name: "Arthur Zajonc"
slug: "arthur-zajonc"
description: "Arthur Guy Zajonc is an American physicist and the author of several books related to science and mind; one of these is based on dialogues about quantum mechanics with the Dalai Lama. Zajonc, professor emeritus at Amherst College as of 2012, taught there starting in 1978. He served as the General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America from 1994 until 2002. From January 2012 to June 2015 he was president of the Mind and Life Institute."
tagline: "Anthroposophists"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-10-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.183186052065919
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Arthur Zajonc"
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    title: "آرثر زاجونك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Arthur Zajonc"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Zajonc"
    title: "Arthur Zajonc"
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    title: "Arthur Zajonc"
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    title: "آرتور زاجونک"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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