# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-sorokin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:35:21.606Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-sorokin"
name: "Peter Sorokin"
slug: "peter-sorokin"
description: "Peter Pitirimovich Sorokin was an American Russian physicist and co-inventor of the dye laser. He was born in Boston and grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University, receiving a BA degree in 1952 and a PhD in Applied Physics in 1958; his PhD thesis adviser was Nicolaas Bloembergen."
tagline: "American physicist (1931-2015)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1931-07-10"
deathDate: "2015-09-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "بيتر بي سوروكين"
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    title: "Peter Sorokin"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_P._Sorokin"
    title: "Peter P. Sorokin"
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    title: "Peter Sorokin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump