# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-fisher
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:03:31.206Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-fisher"
name: "Michael Fisher"
slug: "michael-fisher"
description: "Michael Ellis Fisher was an English physicist, as well as chemist and mathematician, known for his many seminal contributions\nto statistical physics, including but not restricted to the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena. He was the Horace White Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics at Cornell University. Later he moved to the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, where he was University System of Maryland Regents Professor, a Distinguished University Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher."
tagline: "English physicist, chemist and mathematician (1931–2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1931-09-03"
deathDate: "2021-11-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump