# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boris-weisfeiler
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:11:00.991Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boris-weisfeiler"
name: "Boris Weisfeiler"
slug: "boris-weisfeiler"
description: "Boris Weisfeiler was a Soviet-born mathematician and professor at Penn State University who lived in the United States before disappearing in Chile in 1985. Declassified US documents suggest a Chilean army patrol seized Weisfeiler and took him to Colonia Dignidad, a secretive Germanic agricultural commune set up in Chile in the 1960s. During the Chilean Pinochet military dictatorship Boris Weisfeiler allegedly drowned. He is known for the Weisfeiler filtration, Weisfeiler–Leman algorithm and Kac–Weisfeiler conjectures."
tagline: "Russian mathematician"
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: "1941-04-19"
deathDate: "1985-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.174553333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%AE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Вейсфейлер, Борис Юльевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "بوريس وايسفيلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Veysfeyler"
    title: "Boris Veysfeyler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Weisfeiler"
    title: "Boris Weisfeiler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Weisfeiler"
    title: "Boris Weisfeiler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Weisfeiler"
    title: "Boris Weisfeiler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Weisfeiler"
    title: "Boris Weisfeiler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q451733"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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