# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicholas-minorsky
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:11:12.561Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nicholas-minorsky"
name: "Nicholas Minorsky"
slug: "nicholas-minorsky"
description: "Nicolas Minorsky was a Russian American control theory mathematician, engineer and applied scientist. He is best known for his theoretical analysis and first proposed application of PID controllers in the automatic steering systems for U.S. Navy ships."
tagline: "American engineer and mathematician (1885-1970)"
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country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1885-09-24"
deathDate: "1970-07-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             3.883437990580848
  historical:           8.081606666666666
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  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump