# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-mazur
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:40:11.477Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-mazur"
name: "Eric Mazur"
slug: "eric-mazur"
description: "Eric Mazur is a Dutch-born American physicist and educator at Harvard University, and an entrepreneur in technology start-ups for the educational and technology markets. Mazur's research is in experimental ultrafast optics, condensed matter physics and peer instruction. Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Leiden University. He served as the President of Optica in 2017."
tagline: "Dutch physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eric_Mazur%2C_December_2018_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1954-11-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.09888666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://ericmazur.com"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Mazur"
    title: "Eric Mazur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Mazur"
    title: "Eric Mazur"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eric Mazur"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump