# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-chaikin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:47:51.672Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-chaikin"
name: "Paul Chaikin"
slug: "paul-chaikin"
description: "Paul Michael Chaikin is an American physicist known particularly for many significant contributions to the field of soft condensed matter physics."
tagline: "American physicist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-11-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.84
  momentum:             0.2857142857142858
  historical:           5.671850666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Chaikin"
    title: "Paul Chaikin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "پول تشايكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Chaikin"
    title: "Paul Chaikin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Chaikin"
    title: "Paul Chaikin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88%D9%84_%DA%86%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "پائول چایکین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Chaikin"
    title: "Paul Chaikin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2059133"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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