# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-e-phelps
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:10:35.376Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-e-phelps"
name: "Michael E. Phelps"
slug: "michael-e-phelps"
description: "Michael Edward Phelps is a professor and an American biophysicist. He is known for being one of the fathers of positron emission tomography (PET)."
tagline: "American biophysicist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-08-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.411952
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "迈克尔·爱德华·费尔普斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميخائيل إي. فيلبس"
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    title: "مايكل اى. فيلبس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._Phelps"
    title: "Michael E. Phelps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._Phelps"
    title: "Michael E. Phelps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%84%D9%BE%D8%B3_(%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%BE%D8%B2%D8%B4%DA%A9%DB%8C)"
    title: "مایکل فلپس (فیزیک پزشکی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Edward_Phelps"
    title: "Michael Edward Phelps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._Phelps"
    title: "Michael E. Phelps"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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