# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-craik
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:34:29.433Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-craik"
name: "Kenneth Craik"
slug: "kenneth-craik"
description: "Kenneth James William Craik was a Scottish philosopher and psychologist. A pioneer of cybernetics, he hypothesized that any human behaves basically as a servomechanism that executes control at discrete points in time. He influenced Warren McCulloch, who once recounted that Einstein considered The Nature of Explanation a great book."
tagline: "British psychologist (1914–1945)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/13_Abercromby_Place%2C_Edinburgh.jpg/330px-13_Abercromby_Place%2C_Edinburgh.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1914"
deathDate: "1945"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.018648
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Craik"
    title: "Kenneth Craik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Craik"
    title: "Kenneth Craik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Craik"
    title: "Kenneth Craik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Craik"
    title: "Kenneth Craik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Craik"
    title: "Kenneth Craik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3814581"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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