# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thelma-estrin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:18:31.962Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thelma-estrin"
name: "Thelma Estrin"
slug: "thelma-estrin"
description: "Thelma Estrin was an American computer scientist and engineer who did pioneering work in the fields of expert systems and biomedical engineering. Estrin was one of the first to apply computer technology to healthcare and medical research. In 1954, Estrin helped to design the Weizmann Automatic Computer, or WEIZAC, the first computer in Israel and the Middle East, a moment marked as an IEEE Milestone in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She was professor emerita in the Department of Computer Science, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)."
tagline: "American computer scientist and engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thelma_and_gerald_estrin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-02-21"
deathDate: "2014-02-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.34
  momentum:             9.980539699014011
  historical:           13.608028
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Thelma Estrin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ثيلما إيسترين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ثيلما استرين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thelma Estrin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_Estrin"
    title: "Thelma Estrin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_Estrin"
    title: "Thelma Estrin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_Estrin"
    title: "Thelma Estrin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_Estrin"
    title: "Thelma Estrin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thelma Estrin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_Estrin"
    title: "Thelma Estrin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_Estrin"
    title: "Thelma Estrin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thelma Estrin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thelma Estrin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thelma Estrin"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11588"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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