# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-van-emde-boas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:45:39.633Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-van-emde-boas"
name: "Peter van Emde Boas"
slug: "peter-van-emde-boas"
description: "Peter van Emde Boas is a Dutch computer scientist and professor at the University of Amsterdam. He gained his doctorate in 1974 under Adriaan van Wijngaarden.\nThe Van Emde Boas tree is named after him."
tagline: "Dutch computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_van_Emde_Boas.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.13
  momentum:             9.160734061066286
  historical:           6.543737333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Peter van Emde Boas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "بيتر فان امدى بواس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_Emde_Boas"
    title: "Peter van Emde Boas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_Emde_Boas"
    title: "Peter van Emde Boas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_Emde_Boas"
    title: "Peter van Emde Boas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_Emde_Boas"
    title: "Peter van Emde Boas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_Emde_Boas"
    title: "Peter van Emde Boas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15840190"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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