# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-forman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:03:15.331Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-forman"
name: "Paul Forman"
slug: "paul-forman"
description: "Paul Forman is a historian of science and is the retired curator of the Division of Medicine and Science at the National Museum of American History. Forman's primary research focus has been the history of physics, in which he has helped pioneer the application of cultural history to scientific developments."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Forman%2C_HSS_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.31
  momentum:             0.728476821192053
  historical:           5.472498666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Forman"
    title: "Paul Forman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "باول فورمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "پول فورمان (مؤرخ من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Forman_(tarih%C3%A7i)"
    title: "Paul Forman (tarihçi)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Forman_(historian)"
    title: "Paul Forman (historian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Forman"
    title: "Paul Forman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2059589"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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