# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-milnor
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:13:42.510Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-milnor"
name: "John Milnor"
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description: "John Willard Milnor is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, algebraic K-theory and low-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and the only mathematician to have won the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize, the Abel Prize and all three Steele prizes."
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birthDate: "1931-02-20"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump