# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chaim-l-pekeris
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:11:51.637Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chaim-l-pekeris"
name: "Chaim L. Pekeris"
slug: "chaim-l-pekeris"
description: "Chaim Leib Pekeris was an Israeli-American physicist and mathematician. He made notable contributions to geophysics and the spectral theory of many-electron atoms, in particular the helium atom. He was also one of the designers of the first computer in Israel, WEIZAC."
tagline: "Israeli geophysicist and mathematician (1908–1993)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1908-06-15"
deathDate: "1993-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump