# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bernard-eastlund
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:16:34.319Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bernard-eastlund"
name: "Bernard Eastlund"
slug: "bernard-eastlund"
description: "Bernard J. Eastlund was an American physicist who received his B.S. in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and his Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University. In 1970 he received a Special Achievement Certificate from the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission for co-invention of the \"fusion torch.\""
tagline: "American physicist (1938–2007)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938"
deathDate: "2007-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.677322666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Bernard Eastlund"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "برنارد ايستلوند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Eastlund"
    title: "Bernard Eastlund"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Eastlund"
    title: "Bernard Eastlund"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Eastlund"
    title: "Bernard Eastlund"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q440619"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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