# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-ledley
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:01:47.016Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-ledley"
name: "Robert Ledley"
slug: "robert-ledley"
description: "Robert Steven Ledley, professor of physiology and biophysics and professor of radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, pioneered the use of electronic digital computers in biology and medicine. In 1959, he wrote two influential articles in Science: \"Reasoning Foundations of Medical Diagnosis\" and \"Digital Electronic Computers in Biomedical Science\". Both articles encouraged biomedical researchers and physicians to adopt computer technology."
tagline: "American Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and Professor of Radiology (1926–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Ledley_color_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1926-06-28"
deathDate: "2012-07-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.209072
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Robert S. Ledley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "روبرت ليدلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "روبرت ليدلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Ledley"
    title: "Robert S. Ledley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ledley"
    title: "Robert Ledley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "رابرت لدلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Steven_Ledley"
    title: "Robert Steven Ledley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Ледли, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1390215"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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