# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-woit
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:28:15.147Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-woit"
name: "Peter Woit"
slug: "peter-woit"
description: "Peter Woit is a Latvian-American mathematician who works in twistor theory. He works in the mathematics department at Columbia University. A critic of string theory, Woit has published the book Not Even Wrong (2006) and writes a blog of the same name."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PeterWoit.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1957-09-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump