# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-trefil
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:26:02.246Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-trefil"
name: "James Trefil"
slug: "james-trefil"
description: "James Stanley Trefil is an American physicist and author of nearly fifty books. Much of his published work focuses on science for the general audience. He has served as Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia and, since 1988, as Robinson Professor of Physics at George Mason University. Among his books is Are We Unique?, an argument for human uniqueness in which he questions the comparisons between human intelligence and artificial intelligence. Trefil has also given presentations to judges and public officials about the intersections between science and the law."
tagline: "American physicist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-09-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.31818181818182
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جيمس تريفيل"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Trefil"
    title: "James Trefil"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Trefil"
    title: "James Trefil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump