# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-f-hoffman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:15:39.851Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-f-hoffman"
name: "Paul F. Hoffman"
slug: "paul-f-hoffman"
description: "Paul Felix Hoffman, FRSC, OC is a Canadian geologist and Sturgis Hooper Professor Emeritus of Geology at Harvard University. He specializes in the Precambrian era and is widely known for his research on Snowball Earth glaciation in the Neoproterozoic era particularly through his research on sedimentary rocks of Namibia."
tagline: "Canadian geologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1941-03-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.55
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.278150666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Paul F. Hoffman"
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    title: "بول إف. هوفمان"
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    title: "Paul F. Hoffman"
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    title: "پال اف. هافمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul F. Hoffman"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Felix_Hoffman"
    title: "Paul Felix Hoffman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump