# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-arnott-wilson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:43:43.685Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-arnott-wilson"
name: "Robert Arnott Wilson"
slug: "robert-arnott-wilson"
description: "Robert Arnott Wilson is a retired mathematician in London, England, who is best known for his work on classifying the maximal subgroups of finite simple groups and for the work in the Monster group. He is also an accomplished violin, viola and piano player, having played as the principal viola in the Sinfonia of Birmingham. Due to a damaged finger, he now principally plays the kora."
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.672246666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump