# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gordon-plotkin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:53:15.842Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/gordon-plotkin"
name: "Gordon Plotkin"
slug: "gordon-plotkin"
description: "Gordon David Plotkin is a theoretical computer scientist in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Plotkin is probably best known for his introduction of structural operational semantics (SOS) and his work on denotational semantics. In particular, his notes on A Structural Approach to Operational Semantics were very influential. He has contributed to many other areas of computer science."
tagline: "Scottish computer scientist"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  name: "Academic"
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birthDate: "1946-09-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Gordon_Plotkin.html"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump