# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-fredkin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:20:32.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-fredkin"
name: "Edward Fredkin"
slug: "edward-fredkin"
description: "Edward Fredkin was an American computer scientist, physicist and businessman who was an early pioneer of digital physics."
tagline: "American physicist and computer scientist, a pioneer of digital physics (1934–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ed_Fredkin_working_on_PDP-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1934-10-02"
deathDate: "2023-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.034308
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Edward Fredkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "에드워드 프레드킨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward Fredkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward Fredkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump