# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jearl-walker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:30:45.808Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jearl-walker"
name: "Jearl Walker"
slug: "jearl-walker"
description: "Jearl Dalton Walker is an American physicist noted for his book The Flying Circus of Physics, first published in 1975; the second edition was published in June 2006. He teaches physics at Cleveland State University."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jearl_Walker.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-01-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.3999999999999999
  historical:           7.212852
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2683175/"
    handle:    "nm2683175"
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    title: "Jearl Walker"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jearl_Walker"
    title: "Jearl Walker"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jearl_Walker"
    title: "Jearl Walker"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jearl_Walker"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump