# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-eckart
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:39:03.259Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-eckart"
name: "Carl Eckart"
slug: "carl-eckart"
description: "Carl Henry Eckart was an American physicist, physical oceanographer, geophysicist, and administrator. He co-developed the Wigner–Eckart theorem and is also known for the Eckart conditions in quantum mechanics, the Eckart–Young theorem in linear algebra, and his work on non-equilibrium thermodynamics and continuum mechanics, including a relativistic treatment."
tagline: "American physicist (1902-1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carl_Eckart_(1929).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1902-05-04"
deathDate: "1973-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.624408
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Carl Eckart"
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    title: "Carl Eckart"
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    title: "Carl Eckart"
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    title: "Carl Eckart"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump