# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerome-wiesner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:51:30.726Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerome-wiesner"
name: "Jerome Wiesner"
slug: "jerome-wiesner"
description: "Jerome Bert Wiesner was a professor of electrical engineering, chosen by President John F. Kennedy as chairman of his Science Advisory Committee (PSAC). Educated at the University of Michigan, Wiesner was associate director of the university's radio broadcasting service and provided electronic and acoustical assistance to the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan. During World War II, he worked on microwave radar development at the MIT Radiation Laboratory. He worked briefly after the war at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, then returned to MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics from 1946 to 1961. After serving as Kennedy's science advisor, he returned to MIT, becoming its president from 1971 to 1980."
tagline: "American academic engineer (1915-1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerome_Wiesner.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1915-05-30"
deathDate: "1994-10-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.65
  momentum:             4.791666666666666
  historical:           9.627216
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jerome Wiesner"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Wiesner"
    title: "Jerome Wiesner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Wiesner"
    title: "Jerome Wiesner"
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    title: "Jerome Wiesner"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump