# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/duncan-j-watts
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:40.975Z

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name: "Duncan J. Watts"
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description: "Duncan James Watts is a computational social scientist and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City, and is known for his work on small-world networks."
tagline: "Australian physicist and sociologist"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump