# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-peter-may
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:37:27.007Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-peter-may"
name: "J. Peter May"
slug: "j-peter-may"
description: "Jon Peter May is an American mathematician working in the fields of algebraic topology, category theory, homotopy theory, and the foundational aspects of spectra. He is known, in particular, for the May spectral sequence and for coining the term operad."
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country:
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birthDate: "1939-09-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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platforms:
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    url:       "http://math.uchicago.edu/~may/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump