# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-galison
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:27:14.340Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-galison"
name: "Peter Galison"
slug: "peter-galison"
description: "Peter Louis Galison is an American historian and philosopher of science. He is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in history of science and physics at Harvard University."
tagline: "American historian of science and physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Galison%2C_HSS_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1955-05-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.03
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  profileCompleteness:  80
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://galison.scholar.harvard.edu/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Galison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Galison"
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    title: "Peter Galison"
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    title: "Peter Galison"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump