# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-david-singer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:42:58.031Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-david-singer"
name: "J. David Singer"
slug: "j-david-singer"
description: "J. David Singer was an American professor of political science at the University of Michigan. Singer was a pioneer in the application of quantitative methods to hypothesis testing and theory development in the field of international relations. His major contribution was the Correlates of War project, which he began in 1964 at the University of Michigan. It is a major database of statistics relating to war and its causes."
tagline: "American political scientist (1925–2009)"
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birthDate: "1925-12-07"
deathDate: "2009-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump