# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-e-boyd
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:51:54.537Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-e-boyd"
name: "James E. Boyd"
slug: "james-e-boyd"
description: "James Emory Boyd was an American physicist, mathematician, and academic administrator. He was director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 1957 to 1961, president of West Georgia College from 1961 to 1971, and acting president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1971 to 1972."
tagline: "American physicist and administrator (1906–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Boyd_at_Podium_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
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birthDate: "1906-07-18"
deathDate: "1998-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "James E. Boyd"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump