# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/immanuel-velikovsky
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:20:20.781Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/immanuel-velikovsky"
name: "Immanuel Velikovsky"
slug: "immanuel-velikovsky"
description: "Immanuel Velikovsky was a Russian-American psychoanalyst, writer, and catastrophist. He is the author of several books offering pseudohistorical interpretations of ancient history, including the U.S. bestseller Worlds in Collision published in 1950. Velikovsky's work is frequently cited as a canonical example of pseudoscience and has been used as an example of the demarcation problem."
tagline: "Russian, Israeli and American author (1895–1979)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Immanuel_Velikovsky.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1895-06-10"
deathDate: "1979-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             9.045346062052506
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump