# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lorraine-foster
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:26:16.918Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/lorraine-foster"
name: "Lorraine Foster"
slug: "lorraine-foster"
description: "Lorraine Lois Foster is an American mathematician. In 1964 she became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from California Institute of Technology. Her thesis advisor at Caltech was Olga Taussky-Todd. Foster's Erdos number is 2."
tagline: "American mathematician"
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gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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birthDate: "1938-12-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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  country:  null
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    title: "لورين فوستر"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump