# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernest-j-sternglass
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:39:20.550Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernest-j-sternglass"
name: "Ernest J. Sternglass"
slug: "ernest-j-sternglass"
description: "Ernest Joachim Sternglass was a professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh and director of the Radiation and Public Health Project. He was an American physicist and author, best known for his controversial research on the health risks of low-level radiation from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons and from nuclear power plants."
tagline: "American nuclear physicist (1923-2015)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-09-24"
deathDate: "2015-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.137077333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ارنست جيه ستيرنجلاس"
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    title: "アーネスト・スターングラス"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump