# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elmer-gethin-rees
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:43:50.782Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elmer-gethin-rees"
name: "Elmer Gethin Rees"
slug: "elmer-gethin-rees"
description: "Elmer Gethin Rees was a Welsh mathematician with publications in areas ranging from topology, differential geometry, algebraic geometry, linear algebra and Morse theory to robotics. He held the post of Director of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, a partnership between the University of Bristol and the British signals intelligence agency GCHQ, from its creation in 2005 until 2009."
tagline: "Welsh Mathematician (1941–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elmer_Rees.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-11-19"
deathDate: "2019-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump