# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olgierd-zienkiewicz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:40:23.466Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olgierd-zienkiewicz"
name: "Olgierd Zienkiewicz"
slug: "olgierd-zienkiewicz"
description: "Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz was a British academic of Polish descent, mathematician, and civil engineer. He was born in Caterham, England. He was one of the early pioneers of the finite element method. Since his first paper in 1947 dealing with numerical approximation to the stress analysis of dams, he published nearly 600 papers and wrote or edited more than 25 books."
tagline: "British academic of Polish descent, mathematician and civil engineer (1921-2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Olgierd_Zienkiewicz.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1921-05-18"
deathDate: "2009-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.607142857142857
  historical:           9.618756
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz"
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    title: "Olgierd Zienkiewicz"
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    title: "Olgierd Zienkiewicz"
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    title: "Olgierd Zienkiewicz"
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    title: "Olgierd Zienkiewicz"
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    title: "Olgierd Zienkiewicz"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump