# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-guthrie-tait
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:04:27.923Z

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name: "Peter Guthrie Tait"
slug: "peter-guthrie-tait"
description: "Peter Guthrie Tait was a Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics. He is best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Lord Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory."
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birthDate: "1831-04-28"
deathDate: "1901-07-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump