# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-woltman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:24:36.965Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/george-woltman"
name: "George Woltman"
slug: "george-woltman"
description: "George Woltman is the founder of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a distributed computing project researching Mersenne prime numbers using his software Prime95. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a BS and a MS in computer science. He lives in North Carolina."
tagline: "Founder of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime search"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Woltman-1993.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1957-11-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump