# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marjorie-senechal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:33:49.748Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/marjorie-senechal"
name: "Marjorie Senechal"
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description: "Marjorie Lee Senechal is an American mathematician and historian of science, the Louise Wolff Kahn Professor Emerita in Mathematics and History of Science and Technology at Smith College and former editor-in-chief of the Mathematical Intelligencer, where she now edits the Mathematical Communities column. In mathematics, she is known for her work on tessellations and quasicrystals; she has also studied ancient Parthian electric batteries and published several books about silk."
tagline: "American mathematician and historian of science (1939-)"
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birthDate: "1939-07-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump