# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/per-bak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:53:15.113Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/per-bak"
name: "Per Bak"
slug: "per-bak"
description: "Per Bak was a Danish theoretical physicist who coauthored the 1987 academic paper that coined the term \"self-organized criticality.\""
tagline: "Danish physicist (1948-2002)"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-12-08"
deathDate: "2002-10-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.33135857013757
  historical:           10.28412666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Per Bak"
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    title: "Per Bak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Bak"
    title: "Per Bak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Bak"
    title: "Per Bak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump