# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-widom
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:18:41.386Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-widom"
name: "Harold Widom"
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description: "Harold Widom was an American mathematician best known for his contributions to operator theory and random matrices. He was appointed to the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1968 and became professor emeritus in 1994."
tagline: "American mathematician (1932–2021)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1932-09-23"
deathDate: "2021-01-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump