# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-shalen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:09:34.339Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-shalen"
name: "Peter Shalen"
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description: "Peter B. Shalen is an American mathematician, working primarily in low-dimensional topology. He is the \"S\" in JSJ decomposition."
tagline: "American mathematician"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1944"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Peter Shalen"
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    title: "Peter Shalen"
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    title: "Peter Shalen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump