# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-turchin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:41:28.113Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-turchin"
name: "Peter Turchin"
slug: "peter-turchin"
description: "Peter Valentinovich Turchin is a Russian-American scientist who specializes in an area of study he and his colleagues developed called cliodynamics—mathematical modeling and statistical analysis of the dynamics of historical societies."
tagline: "Russian-American complexity scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Turchin_2020.webp?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1957-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump