# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-r-newman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:26:07.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-r-newman"
name: "James R. Newman"
slug: "james-r-newman"
description: "James Roy Newman was an American mathematician and mathematical historian. He was also a lawyer, practicing in the state of New York from 1929 to 1941. During and after World War II, he held several positions in the United States government, including Chief Intelligence Officer at the US Embassy in London, Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of War, and Counsel to the US Senate Committee on Atomic Energy. In the latter capacity, he helped to draft the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. He became a member of the board of editors for Scientific American beginning in 1948. He is also credited for first publishing the mathematical term \"googol\" in his book Mathematics and The Imagination, co-authored with Edward Kasner."
tagline: "American mathematician, historian (1907–1966)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1907"
deathDate: "1966-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.740740740740741
  historical:           8.944745333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Newman"
    title: "James R. Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James R. Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Newman"
    title: "James R. Newman"
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    title: "James R. Newman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump