# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-w-clough
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:48:20.644Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-w-clough"
name: "Ray W. Clough"
slug: "ray-w-clough"
description: "Ray William Clough was Byron L. and Elvira E. Nishkian Professor of structural engineering in the department of civil engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the founders of the finite element method (FEM). His 1956 article was one of the first applications of this computational method. He coined the term \"finite elements\" in an article in 1960. He was born in Seattle and died on October 8, 2016, aged 96."
tagline: "American engineer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-07-23"
deathDate: "2016-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8585858585858586
  historical:           5.674406666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ray William Clough"
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    title: "راي وليام كلوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_W._Clough"
    title: "Ray W. Clough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Clough"
    title: "Ray Clough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Clough"
    title: "Ray Clough"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Clough"
    title: "Ray Clough"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321297"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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