# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nir-shaviv
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:11:13.327Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nir-shaviv"
name: "Nir Shaviv"
slug: "nir-shaviv"
description: "Nir Joseph Shaviv is an Israeli‐American physics professor. He is professor at the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."
tagline: "Israeli-American astrophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nir_Shaviv_YulongMtn2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1972-07-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.477934666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nir_Shaviv"
    title: "Nir Shaviv"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "نیار شویوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nir_Shaviv"
    title: "Nir Shaviv"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D1%80_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B2"
    title: "Нір Шавів"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A8_%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%99%D7%91"
    title: "ניר שביב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B2"
    title: "Нир Шавив"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1993360"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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