# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-j-mceliece
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:16:07.427Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-j-mceliece"
name: "Robert J. McEliece"
slug: "robert-j-mceliece"
description: "Robert J. McEliece was the Allen E. Puckett Professor and a professor of electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) best known for his work in error-correcting coding and information theory. He was the 2004 recipient of the Claude E. Shannon Award and the 2009 recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. He was a life fellow of the IEEE and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998."
tagline: "American mathematician (1942–2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-05-21"
deathDate: "2019-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.15
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump