# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melvin-lax
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:52:07.764Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melvin-lax"
name: "Melvin Lax"
slug: "melvin-lax"
description: "Melvin Lax was a distinguished professor of physics at City College of New York and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1983, and notable for his contributions to research of random processes in physics. He was the chairman of the Theoretical Physics Department at Bell Labs from 1962 to 1964. He was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Optical Society of America."
tagline: "American physicist (1922–2002)"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1922-03-08"
deathDate: "2002-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump