# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boris-shklovskii
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:32:12.964Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boris-shklovskii"
name: "Boris Shklovskii"
slug: "boris-shklovskii"
description: "Boris Ionovich Shklovskii is a Russian theoretical physicist, at the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, specializing in condensed matter. Shklovskii earned his A.B. degree in Physics, in 1966 and a Ph.D. in condensed matter theory, in 1968 from Leningrad University."
tagline: "American theoretical physicist"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-01-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.675918666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tpi.umn.edu/shklovskii/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Shklovskii"
    title: "Boris Shklovskii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B4%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%DA%A4%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "بوريس شكلوڤسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Ionowitsch_Schklowski"
    title: "Boris Ionowitsch Schklowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%2C_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%98%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Шкловский, Борис Ионович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bor%C3%ADs_Shklovskii"
    title: "Borís Shklovskii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Shklovskii"
    title: "Boris Shklovskii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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