# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cornelius-lanczos
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:42:33.412Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cornelius-lanczos"
name: "Cornelius Lanczos"
slug: "cornelius-lanczos"
description: "Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos was a Hungarian, American, and later Irish mathematician and physicist. According to György Marx he was one of the Martians, a group of Hungarian scientific luminaries who immigrated to the United States to escape national socialism. He was remembered by his colleagues as an innovative scholar and an excellent educator."
tagline: "Hungarian mathematician and physicist (1893–1974)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7e/Lanczos_Kornel_photo_in_1947.jpg/330px-Lanczos_Kornel_photo_in_1947.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1893-02-02"
deathDate: "1974-06-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           14.262388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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