# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-j-gans
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:47:57.369Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-j-gans"
name: "Herbert J. Gans"
slug: "herbert-j-gans"
description: "Herbert Julius Gans was a German-born American sociologist who taught at Columbia University from 1971 to 2007."
tagline: "German-American sociologist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1927-05-07"
deathDate: "2025-04-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1072961373390558
  historical:           8.950289333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump