# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-goresky
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:47:13.884Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-goresky"
name: "Mark Goresky"
slug: "mark-goresky"
description: "Robert Mark Goresky is a Canadian mathematician who invented intersection homology with his advisor and life partner Robert MacPherson."
tagline: "Canadian-American mathematician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-12-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.474082666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Goresky"
    title: "Mark Goresky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "مارك جوريسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Goresky"
    title: "Mark Goresky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Goresky"
    title: "Mark Goresky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Goresky"
    title: "Mark Goresky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Goresky"
    title: "Mark Goresky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1900071"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump