# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-l-heilbron
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:51:35.377Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-l-heilbron"
name: "John L. Heilbron"
slug: "john-l-heilbron"
description: "John Lewis Heilbron was an American historian of science best known for his work in the history of physics and the history of astronomy. He was Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, senior research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and visiting professor at Yale University and the California Institute of Technology. He edited the academic journal Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences for twenty-five years."
tagline: "American historian of science (1934–2023)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1934-03-17"
deathDate: "2023-11-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.615384615384617
  historical:           8.743701333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جون لويس هايلبورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون ال. هايلبورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Heilbron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Heilbron"
    title: "John L. Heilbron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Heilbron"
    title: "John L. Heilbron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Heilbron"
    title: "John Lewis Heilbron"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B4_%ED%97%A4%EC%9D%BC%EB%B8%8C%EB%A1%A0"
    title: "존 헤일브론"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хейлброн, Джон"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump