# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-oster
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:22:37.785Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-oster"
name: "George Oster"
slug: "george-oster"
description: "George Frederick Oster NAS was an American mathematical biologist, and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He made seminal contributions to several varied fields including chaos theory, population dynamics, membrane dynamics and molecular motors. He was a 1985 MacArthur Fellow."
tagline: "American biologist (1940–2018)"
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: "1940-04-20"
deathDate: "2018-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.05
  momentum:             22.5
  historical:           5.471706666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "George Oster"
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    title: "جورج اوستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Oster"
    title: "George Oster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Oster"
    title: "George Oster"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Oster"
    title: "George Oster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Oster"
    title: "George Oster"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump