# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-langton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:12:34.089Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-langton"
name: "Christopher Langton"
slug: "christopher-langton"
description: "Christopher Gale Langton is an American computer scientist and one of the founders of the field of artificial life. He coined the term in the late 1980s when he organized the first \"Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems\" at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1987. Following his time at Los Alamos, Langton joined the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), to continue his research on artificial life. He left SFI in the late 1990s, and abandoned his work on artificial life, publishing no research since that time."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Langtonsmall2.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump