# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laura-mersini-houghton
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:06:39.165Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/laura-mersini-houghton"
name: "Laura Mersini-Houghton"
slug: "laura-mersini-houghton"
description: "Laura Mersini-Houghton is an Albanian-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist, and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a proponent of the multiverse hypothesis and the author of a theory for the origin of the universe that holds that our universe is one of many selected by quantum gravitational dynamics of matter and energy. Mersini-Houghton has claimed that her theory explains unusual astrophysical data. She argues that anomalies in the current structure of the universe are best explained as the gravitational tug exerted by other universes."
tagline: "Albanian cosmologist and theoretical physicist"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1969"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           16.69885066666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump