# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-feinberg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:10:16.262Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-feinberg"
name: "Gerald Feinberg"
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description: "Gerald Feinberg was a Columbia University physicist, futurist and popular science author. He spent a year as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and two years at the Brookhaven Laboratories. Feinberg went to Bronx High School of Science with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow and obtained his bachelor's and graduate degrees from Columbia University. His father was Yiddish poet and journalist Leon Feinberg. Among his students were Scott Dodelson, physicist at Carnegie Mellon University."
tagline: "American physicist (1933–1992)"
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birthDate: "1933-05-27"
deathDate: "1992-04-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump