# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-p-multhauf
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:01:09.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-p-multhauf"
name: "Robert P. Multhauf"
slug: "robert-p-multhauf"
description: "Robert P. Multhauf was an American historian of science, museum curator, director, scientific scholar, and author. He worked as a curator for the Smithsonian Institution 1954–1987, serving as head curator (1957–1966) and then director (1966–1970) of the Museum of History and Technology. He also served as editor of the History of Science Society's journal Isis for fifteen years 1964–1978 and the society's president 1979–1980, and he was president of the Society for the History of Technology 1969–1970 and awarded its Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 1987."
tagline: "American historian of science (1919–2004)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-06-08"
deathDate: "2004-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.671202666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P._Multhauf"
    title: "Robert P. Multhauf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "رابرت پلوتوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P._Multhauf"
    title: "Robert P. Multhauf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BD%97%E4%BC%AF%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E9%A9%AC%E5%B0%94%E7%89%B9%E9%9C%8D%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "罗伯特·马尔特霍夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Multhauf"
    title: "Robert Multhauf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%84%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Мултауф, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7348228"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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