# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-j-r-hughes
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:37:19.965Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-j-r-hughes"
name: "Thomas J.R. Hughes"
slug: "thomas-j-r-hughes"
description: "Thomas Joseph Robert Hughes is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and currently holds the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair (III) at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin.\nHughes has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company."
tagline: "American engineer"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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birthDate: "1943-08-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.067357512953368
  historical:           4.819548
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://users.oden.utexas.edu/~hughes/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump