# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-nivat
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:07:54.921Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-nivat"
name: "Maurice Nivat"
slug: "maurice-nivat"
description: "Maurice Paul Nivat was a French computer scientist. His research in computer science spanned the areas of formal languages, programming language semantics, and discrete geometry. A 2006 citation for an honorary doctorate (Ph.D.) called Nivat one of the fathers of theoretical computer science. He was a professor at the University Paris Diderot until 2001."
tagline: "French computer scientist (1937–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_NIVAT_MAURICE_2006_CIMG2435.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-12-21"
deathDate: "2017-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.55
  momentum:             15.9727626459144
  historical:           4.820304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Nivat"
    title: "Maurice Nivat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Nivat"
    title: "Maurice Nivat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Nivat"
    title: "Maurice Nivat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Nivat"
    title: "Maurice Nivat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Нива, Морис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3301202"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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