# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-shepherd-nivison
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:38:44.820Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-shepherd-nivison"
name: "David Shepherd Nivison"
slug: "david-shepherd-nivison"
description: "David Shepherd Nivison was an American sinologist known for his publications on late imperial and ancient Chinese history, and philosophy, and for his 40 years as a professor at Stanford University. Nivison is known for his use of archaeoastronomy to accurately determine the date of the founding of the Zhou dynasty as 1045 BC instead of the traditional date of 1122 BC."
tagline: "American sinologist and historian (1923–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Nivison.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-01-17"
deathDate: "2014-10-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.45
  momentum:             3.636363636363636
  historical:           6.344745333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "倪德卫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد شيبرد نيفيسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shepherd_Nivison"
    title: "David Shepherd Nivison"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shepherd_Nivison"
    title: "David Shepherd Nivison"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shepherd_Nivison"
    title: "David Shepherd Nivison"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EC%9D%B4%EB%B9%84%EB%93%9C_%EB%8B%88%EB%B9%84%EC%8A%A8"
    title: "데이비드 니비슨"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shepherd_Nivison"
    title: "David Shepherd Nivison"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump