# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-t-kirstein
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:32:51.587Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-t-kirstein"
name: "Peter T. Kirstein"
slug: "peter-t-kirstein"
description: "Peter Thomas Kirstein was a British computer scientist who played a role in the creation of the Internet. He made the first internetworking connection on the ARPANET in 1973, by providing a link to British academic networks, and was instrumental in defining and implementing TCP/IP alongside Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn."
tagline: "British computer scientist (1933–2020)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-06-20"
deathDate: "2020-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.5
  momentum:             5.142857142857141
  historical:           7.211736
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/P.Kirstein/"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._Kirstein"
    title: "Peter T. Kirstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%AA.%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بيتر ت.كيرستين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%AA%DB%8C._%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "پیتر تی. کیرستاین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._Kirstein"
    title: "Peter T. Kirstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._Kirstein"
    title: "Peter T. Kirstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._Kirstein"
    title: "Peter T. Kirstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._Kirstein"
    title: "Peter T. Kirstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kirstein"
    title: "Peter Kirstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7177227"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump