# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edith-hirsch-luchins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:15:20.099Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edith-hirsch-luchins"
name: "Edith Hirsch Luchins"
slug: "edith-hirsch-luchins"
description: "Edith Hirsch Luchins was a Polish-American mathematician. Her work focused on applying mathematical principles to problems in the philosophy of science and psychology, most notably in the field of Gestalt psychology. The Luchins and Luchins' Water Jar Experiment is named after her and her husband psychologist Abraham S. Luchins."
tagline: "Mathematician (1921-2002)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1921-12-21"
deathDate: "2002-11-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Edith Hirsch Luchins"
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hirsch_Luchins"
    title: "Edith Hirsch Luchins"
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  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hirsch_Luchins"
    title: "Edith Hirsch Luchins"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_H._Luchins"
    title: "Edith H. Luchins"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hirsch_Luchins"
    title: "Edith Hirsch Luchins"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hirsch_Luchins"
    title: "Edith Hirsch Luchins"
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  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hirsch_Luchins"
    title: "Edith Hirsch Luchins"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1284993"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump