# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carlo-cercignani
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:03:55.318Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carlo-cercignani"
name: "Carlo Cercignani"
slug: "carlo-cercignani"
description: "Carlo Cercignani was an Italian mathematician known for his work on the kinetic theory of gases. His contributions to the study of Boltzmann's equation include the proof of the H-theorem for polyatomic gases. The Cercignani conjecture is named after him."
tagline: "Italian physicist and mathematician (1939–2010)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-06-17"
deathDate: "2010-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             7.397435897435899
  historical:           5.676422666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Cercignani"
    title: "Carlo Cercignani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "كارلو سيرسيجنانى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Carlo Cercignani"
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    title: "卡罗·切尔奇纳尼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Cercignani"
    title: "Carlo Cercignani"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Cercignani"
    title: "Carlo Cercignani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q166906"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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