# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruce-allen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:51:51.071Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruce-allen"
name: "Bruce Allen"
slug: "bruce-allen"
description: "Bruce Allen is an American physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany, and founder and leader of the distributed volunteer computing project Einstein@Home project. He is an honorary physics professor at Leibniz University Hannover, an adjunct physics professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and also the initiator / project leader of smartmontools hard disk utility."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruce_Allen_2009.JPG?width=1200"
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: "1959-05-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.678366666666667
  currentAttention:     15.16
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Allen_(Physiker)"
    title: "Bruce Allen (Physiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بروس ألين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بروس الين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Allen"
    title: "Bruce Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Allen_(physicist)"
    title: "Bruce Allen (physicist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%86_(%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86)"
    title: "بروس آلن (فیزیکدان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump