# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lewis-m-branscomb
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:27:24.303Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lewis-m-branscomb"
name: "Lewis M. Branscomb"
slug: "lewis-m-branscomb"
description: "Lewis McAdory Branscomb was an American physicist, government policy advisor, and corporate research manager. He was best known for being head of the National Bureau of Standards and, later, chief scientist of IBM; and as a prolific writer on science policy issues."
tagline: "Physicist and science policy advisor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LewisBranscombJI2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-08-17"
deathDate: "2023-05-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.006588
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.branscomb.org/lewis.html"
sources:
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    title: "Lewis M. Branscomb"
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    title: "Бренскомб, Льюис"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump