# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-m-ball
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:56:25.512Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-m-ball"
name: "John M. Ball"
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description: "Sir John Macleod Ball is a British mathematician and former Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2003 to 2006 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford."
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birthDate: "1948-05-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump