# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-saltzberg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:44:53.264Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-saltzberg"
name: "David Saltzberg"
slug: "david-saltzberg"
description: "David Paul Saltzberg is an experimental particle physicist and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is known for his science consultancy work on various television shows and films, such as The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, Manhattan and Oppenheimer. His research involves high-energy collider physics and the radio detection of cosmic neutrinos, and in 2018, he was inducted as a fellow of the American Physical Society."
tagline: "American physicist and television script consultant"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chester%2C_David_Saltzberg_e_Bani_(6196902180)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2934564/"
    handle:    "nm2934564"
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    url:       "http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~saltzberg/"
sources:
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    title: "David Saltzberg"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Saltzberg"
    title: "David Saltzberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Saltzberg"
    title: "David Saltzberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دیوید سالتزبرگ"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump