# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shiraz-minwalla
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:06:18.822Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shiraz-minwalla"
name: "Shiraz Minwalla"
slug: "shiraz-minwalla"
description: "Shiraz Naval Minwalla is an Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist. He is a faculty member in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Prior to his present position, Minwalla was a Harvard Junior Fellow and subsequently an assistant professor at Harvard University."
tagline: "Indian physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shiraz_Minwalla_at_Harvard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1972-01-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.25
  momentum:             4.47
  historical:           6.856052
  currentAttention:     5.107142857142858
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://theory.tifr.res.in/~minwalla/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "شيراز مينوالا"
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    title: "ছিৰাজ মিনৱালা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shiraz Minwalla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz_Minwalla"
    title: "Shiraz Minwalla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "شیراز مینولا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz_da_kuma"
    title: "Shiraz da kuma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz_Minwalla"
    title: "Shiraz Minwalla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump