# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-banks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:31:42.534Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-banks"
name: "Tom Banks"
slug: "tom-banks"
description: "Thomas Israel Banks is a theoretical physicist and professor at Rutgers University and University of California, Santa Cruz."
tagline: "American physicist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-04-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.51
  momentum:             6.545454545454546
  historical:           6.542513333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "湯姆·班克斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "توم بانكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "توم بانكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Banks"
    title: "Tom Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Banks_(physicist)"
    title: "Tom Banks (physicist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Banks"
    title: "Tom Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%B3_(%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86)"
    title: "تام بنکس (فیزیکدان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1383863"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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