# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bjorn-poonen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:47:54.384Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/bjorn-poonen"
name: "Bjorn Poonen"
slug: "bjorn-poonen"
description: "Bjorn Mikhail Poonen is a mathematician, four-time Putnam Competition winner, and a Distinguished Professor in Science in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \nHis research is primarily in arithmetic geometry, but he has occasionally published in other subjects such as probability and computer science.\nHe has edited two books."
tagline: "American mathematician"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
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  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1968-07-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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  country:  null
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    title: "بچورن پونين"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump