# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-a-nielsen
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:14:59.612Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-a-nielsen"
name: "Michael A. Nielsen"
slug: "michael-a-nielsen"
description: "Michael Aaron Nielsen is an Australian-American quantum physicist, science writer, and computer programming researcher living in San Francisco."
tagline: "Australian and Canadian physicist and writer (b.1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Nielsen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1974-01-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           60.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.375057333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 12453
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/michael_nielsen"
    handle:    "michael_nielsen"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelanielsen/"
    handle:    "michaelanielsen"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://michaelnielsen.org"
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/mnielsen"
    handle:    "mnielsen"
    followers: 12453
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "ميخائيل نيلسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nielsen"
    title: "Michael Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nielsen"
    title: "Michael Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nielsen"
    title: "Michael Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nielsen"
    title: "Michael Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%82%81%E5%85%8B%E7%88%BE%C2%B7%E5%B0%BC%E7%88%BE%E6%A3%AE"
    title: "邁克爾·尼爾森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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