# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-w-akerlof
# Generated: 2026-09-03T13:19:50.843Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-w-akerlof"
name: "Carl W. Akerlof"
slug: "carl-w-akerlof"
description: "Carl William Akerlof is an American particle physicist and astrophysicist. A professor of physics at the University of Michigan, Akerlof initiated and led the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE), a ground-breaking effort to find fast astrophysical optical transients, particularly gamma-ray bursts. Akerlof has co-authored over 400 papers with 1500 collaborators, which have been cited over 6000 times. He was elected in 1993 a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)."
tagline: "American physicist"
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: "1938-03-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.139417333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "كارل أكرلف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_W._Akerlof"
    title: "Carl W. Akerlof"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_W._Akerlof"
    title: "Carl W. Akerlof"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_W._Akerlof"
    title: "Carl W. Akerlof"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17004513"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations