# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-lax
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:07:48.430Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-lax"
name: "Peter Lax"
slug: "peter-lax"
description: "Peter David Lax was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and Abel Prize laureate working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics."
tagline: "American mathematician of Hungarian origin (1926–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Lax_in_Tokyo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-05-01"
deathDate: "2025-05-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump