# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-edmonds
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:41:37.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-edmonds"
name: "Jack Edmonds"
slug: "jack-edmonds"
description: "Jack R. Edmonds is an American-born and educated computer scientist and mathematician who lived and worked in Canada for much of his life. He has made fundamental contributions to the fields of combinatorial optimization, polyhedral combinatorics, discrete mathematics and the theory of computing. He was the recipient of the 1985 John von Neumann Theory Prize."
tagline: "Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, born 1934"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jack.Edmonds.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1934-04-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Jack Edmonds"
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    title: "Jack Edmonds"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump