# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-mckernan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:04:50.230Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-mckernan"
name: "James McKernan"
slug: "james-mckernan"
description: "James McKernan is a mathematician, and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2007 until 2013."
tagline: "British mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_McKernan_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1964-03-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.076638666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~jmckerna/"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Джеймс Маккернан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس مكيرنان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джэймс Мак-Кернан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McKernan"
    title: "James McKernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McKernan"
    title: "James McKernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McKernan"
    title: "James McKernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジェームズ・マッカーナン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McKernan"
    title: "James McKernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Маккернан, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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