# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-d-novak
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:16:19.728Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-d-novak"
name: "Joseph D. Novak"
slug: "joseph-d-novak"
description: "Joseph Donald Novak was an American educator, and professor emeritus at the Cornell University, and senior research scientist at the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition. He is known for his development of concept mapping in the 1970s."
tagline: "American educator (1932–2023)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1932"
deathDate: "2023-09-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.352341333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Novak"
    title: "Joseph Novak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%AF._%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%83"
    title: "جوزيف د. نوفاك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_D._Novak"
    title: "Joseph D. Novak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_D._Novak"
    title: "Joseph D. Novak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_D._Novak"
    title: "Joseph D. Novak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Novak"
    title: "Joseph Novak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Novak"
    title: "Joseph Novak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2261908"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump