# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinz-von-foerster
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:03:43.574Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/heinz-von-foerster"
name: "Heinz von Foerster"
slug: "heinz-von-foerster"
description: "Heinz von Foerster was an Austrian-American scientist combining physics and philosophy, and widely attributed as the originator of second-order cybernetics. He was twice a Guggenheim fellow and also was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1980. He is well known for his 1960 Doomsday equation formula published in Science predicting future population growth."
tagline: "Austrian-American scientist and cybernetician (1911-2002)"
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birthDate: "1911-11-13"
deathDate: "2002-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump