# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giorgio-de-santillana
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:15:10.085Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giorgio-de-santillana"
name: "Giorgio de Santillana"
slug: "giorgio-de-santillana"
description: "Giorgio Diaz de Santillana was an Italian-American philosopher and historian of science, particularly of ancient science and of the Renaissance science of Galileo Galilei. He was a professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology best known for his books The Crime of Galileo (1955) and Hamlet's Mill (1969)."
tagline: "American historian and philosopher"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1902-05-30"
deathDate: "1974-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.28
  momentum:             25
  historical:           9.6468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "جورجيو دى سانتيانا"
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    title: "Джорджо де Сантиляна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Giorgio de Santillana"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Santillana"
    title: "Giorgio de Santillana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Santillana"
    title: "Giorgio de Santillana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Santillana"
    title: "Giorgio de Santillana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_De_Santillana"
    title: "Giorgio De Santillana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Santillana"
    title: "Giorgio de Santillana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Santillana"
    title: "Giorgio de Santillana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%BE_%D0%B4%D0%B5"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump