# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-scheinman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:23:44.665Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-scheinman"
name: "Victor Scheinman"
slug: "victor-scheinman"
description: "Victor David Scheinman was an American pioneer in the field of robotics.\nHe was born in Augusta, Georgia, where his father Léonard was stationed with the US Army. At the end of the war, the family moved to Brooklyn and his father returned to work as a professor of psychiatry. His mother taught at a Hebrew school."
tagline: "Pioneer in the field of robotics"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Victor_Scheinman_at_MIT_Museum.agr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1942-12-28"
deathDate: "2016-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.612312
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%A8%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Віктар Шэйнман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%AF%CE%BA%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%81_%CE%A3%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%BD"
    title: "Βίκτορ Σίνμαν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Scheinman"
    title: "Victor Scheinman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Scheinman"
    title: "Victor Scheinman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Scheinman"
    title: "Victor Scheinman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3558944"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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