# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-witten
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:17:49.371Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-witten"
name: "Louis Witten"
slug: "louis-witten"
description: "Louis W. Witten is an American theoretical physicist and the father of the physicist Edward Witten. Witten's research has centered on classical gravitation, including the discovery of certain exact electrovacuum solutions to the Einstein field equation."
tagline: "American theoretical physicist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1921-04-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Louis Witten"
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    title: "لويس ويتن"
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    title: "لوئیس ویتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Witten"
    title: "Louis Witten"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Witten"
    title: "Louis Witten"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump