# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeff-cheeger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:23:04.383Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeff-cheeger"
name: "Jeff Cheeger"
slug: "jeff-cheeger"
description: "Jeff Cheeger is an American mathematician and Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. His main interest is differential geometry and its connections with topology and analysis."
tagline: "American mathematician and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cheeger_Lawson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1943-12-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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    title: "Jeff Cheeger"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump