# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-geroch
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:16:10.428Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-geroch"
name: "Robert Geroch"
slug: "robert-geroch"
description: "Robert Geroch is an American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Chicago. He has worked prominently on general relativity and mathematical physics and has promoted the use of category theory in mathematics and physics. He was the Ph.D. supervisor for Abhay Ashtekar, Basilis Xanthopoulos and Gary Horowitz. He also proved an important theorem in spin geometry. He received the Quantrell Award."
tagline: "American physicist"
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birthDate: "1942-06-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump