# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-busemann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:33:36.812Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-busemann"
name: "Herbert Busemann"
slug: "herbert-busemann"
description: "Herbert Busemann was a German-American mathematician specializing in convex and differential geometry. He is the author of Busemann's theorem in Euclidean geometry and geometric tomography. He was a member of the Royal Danish Academy and a winner of the Lobachevsky Medal (1985), the first American mathematician to receive it. He was also a Fulbright scholar in New Zealand in 1952."
tagline: "Mathematician"
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gender: "male"
country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1905-05-12"
deathDate: "1994-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump