# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boris-gessen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:19:55.972Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boris-gessen"
name: "Boris Gessen"
slug: "boris-gessen"
description: "Boris Mikhailovich Hessen, also Gessen, was a Soviet physicist, philosopher and historian of science. He is most famous for his paper on Newton's Principia which became foundational in historiography of science."
tagline: "Russian philosopher and physicist (1893-1936)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1893-08-16"
deathDate: "1936-12-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.955257333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "بوريس هيسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Michailowitsch_Hessen"
    title: "Boris Michailowitsch Hessen"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Hessen"
    title: "Boris Hessen"
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    title: "بوریس هسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Hessen"
    title: "Boris Hessen"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Hessen"
    title: "Boris Hessen"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
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  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Michajlovi%C4%8D_Gessen"
    title: "Boris Michajlovič Gessen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump