# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacques-distler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:50:46.130Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacques-distler"
name: "Jacques Distler"
slug: "jacques-distler"
description: "Jacques Distler is a Canadian-born American physicist working in string theory. He has been a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin since 1994."
tagline: "Physicist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.673074666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Jacques Distler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Distler"
    title: "Jacques Distler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Distler"
    title: "Jacques Distler"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Distler"
    title: "Jacques Distler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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