# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barry-simon
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:59:47.311Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barry-simon"
name: "Barry Simon"
slug: "barry-simon"
description: "Barry Martin Simon  is an American mathematical physicist and was the IBM professor of mathematics and theoretical physics at Caltech, known for his prolific contributions in spectral theory, functional analysis, and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, including the connections to atomic and molecular physics. He has authored more than 400 publications on mathematics and physics."
tagline: "American mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barry_Simon_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-04-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.97210533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%B4%E9%87%8C%C2%B7%E8%A5%BF%E8%92%99"
    title: "巴里·西蒙"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "باري سيمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بارى سيمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Simon"
    title: "Barry Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Simon"
    title: "Barry Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Simon"
    title: "Barry Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بری سیمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Simon"
    title: "Barry Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9F_(%D7%9E%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%99)"
    title: "ברי סיימון (מתמטיקאי)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Simon"
    title: "Barry Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Simon"
    title: "Barry Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Simon"
    title: "Barry Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3"
    title: "バリー・サイモン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Simon"
    title: "Barry Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Саймон, Барри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Баррі Саймон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q370126"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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