# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernest-courant
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:09:17.925Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernest-courant"
name: "Ernest Courant"
slug: "ernest-courant"
description: "Ernest David Courant was an American accelerator physicist. He was a distinguished scientist emeritus at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan. In 1976, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Courant was the eldest son of the mathematician Richard Courant."
tagline: "American physicist (1920–2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/2000_BNL_Ernest_Courant.jpg/330px-2000_BNL_Ernest_Courant.jpg"
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: "1920-03-26"
deathDate: "2020-04-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ernest Courant"
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    title: "Курант, Эрнест"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump