# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norman-packard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:47:59.294Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norman-packard"
name: "Norman Packard"
slug: "norman-packard"
description: "Norman Harry Packard is a chaos theory physicist and one of the founders of the Prediction Company and ProtoLife. He is an alumnus of Reed College, with a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Packard is known for his contributions to chaos theory, complex systems, and artificial life. He coined the phrase \"the edge of chaos\"."
tagline: "American chaos theory physicist"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump