# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ted-belytschko
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:03:33.590Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ted-belytschko"
name: "Ted Belytschko"
slug: "ted-belytschko"
description: "Ted Bohdan Belytschko was an American mechanical engineer. He was Walter P. Murphy Professor and McCormick Professor of Computational Mechanics at Northwestern University. He worked in the field of computational solid mechanics and was known for development of methods like element-free Galerkin method and the Extended finite element method."
tagline: "American mechanical engineer (1943-2014)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-01-13"
deathDate: "2014-09-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.07
  momentum:             13.06918238993711
  historical:           5.873002666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ted Belytschko"
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    title: "تيد بيليتشكو"
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    title: "Ted Belytschko"
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    title: "Тед Белічко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Belytschko"
    title: "Ted Belytschko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Belytschko"
    title: "Ted Belytschko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7693003"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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