# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-bolt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:24:40.086Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-bolt"
name: "Richard Bolt"
slug: "richard-bolt"
description: "Richard Henry Bolt was an American physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with an interest in acoustics. He was one of the founders of the company Bolt, Beranek and Newman, which built the ARPANET, a forerunner of the Internet."
tagline: "American physicist (1911-2002)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1911-04-22"
deathDate: "2002-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.1
  momentum:             5.782805429864252
  historical:           5.274442666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Richard Bolt"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AA"
    title: "ريتشارد بولت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bolt"
    title: "Richard Bolt"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bolt"
    title: "Richard Bolt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ریچارد بوولت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4014752"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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