# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-amit
# Generated: 2026-09-07T16:44:25.011Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-amit"
name: "Daniel Amit"
slug: "daniel-amit"
description: "Daniel J. Amit was an Israeli and Italian physicist and pacifist, who was one of the pioneers in the field of computational neuroscience. Amit, Hanoch Gutfreund and Haim Sompolinsky, in a set of papers referred to as the ASG papers, were the first to demonstrate the utility of statistical mechanics in neural network research and helped establish theoretical and computational neuroscience as a novel approach that brings into brain research unique powerful sets of concepts, models, and standards of rigour."
tagline: "Physicist (1938-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Danielamit.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-05-05"
deathDate: "2007-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.43
  momentum:             15
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Daniel Amit"
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    title: "دانيال اميت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Daniel Amit"
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    title: "دانیل آمیت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA"
    title: "דניאל עמית"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump