# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-pasta
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:23:38.047Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-pasta"
name: "John Pasta"
slug: "john-pasta"
description: "John Robert Pasta was an American computational physicist and computer scientist who is remembered today for the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou experiment, the result of which was much discussed among physicists and researchers in the fields of dynamical systems and chaos theory, and as the head of the department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1964 to 1970."
tagline: "American physicist (1918–1981)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1918-10-22"
deathDate: "1981-06-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.12
  momentum:             20.08695652173913
  historical:           7.012492
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John Pasta"
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    title: "جون پاستا"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pasta"
    title: "John Pasta"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pasta"
    title: "John Pasta"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pasta"
    title: "John Pasta"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump