# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-slepian
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:52:32.963Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/david-slepian"
name: "David Slepian"
slug: "david-slepian"
description: "David S. Slepian was an American mathematician. He is best known for his work with algebraic coding theory, probability theory, and distributed source coding. He was colleagues with Claude Shannon and Richard Hamming at Bell Labs."
tagline: "American mathematician (1923–2007)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1923-06-30"
deathDate: "2007-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           6.806192
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "David Slepian"
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    title: "ديفيد سلبيان"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Slepian"
    title: "David Slepian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Slepian"
    title: "David Slepian"
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    title: "David Slepian"
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    title: "David Slepian"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump