# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irene-heim
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:45:10.054Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irene-heim"
name: "Irene Heim"
slug: "irene-heim"
description: "Irene Roswitha Heim is a German-American linguist and a leading specialist in semantics. She was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1989, where she is professor emerita of linguistics. She served as head of the Linguistics Section of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy."
tagline: "American linguist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-10-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.14
  momentum:             5.660377358490567
  historical:           6.342189333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%89%BE%E7%90%B3%C2%B7%E6%B5%B7%E5%A7%86"
    title: "艾琳·海姆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Heim"
    title: "Irene Heim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Heim"
    title: "Irene Heim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Heim"
    title: "Irene Heim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BB%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%B6_%D5%80%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%B4"
    title: "Իրեն Հայմ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%86%E0%A8%87%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%A8_%E0%A8%B9%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%AE"
    title: "ਆਇਰੀਨ ਹੀਮ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Heim"
    title: "Irene Heim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6069043"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump