# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-g-unruh
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:35:36.641Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-g-unruh"
name: "W. G. Unruh"
slug: "w-g-unruh"
description: "William George Unruh is a Canadian physicist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver who described the hypothetical Unruh effect in 1976."
tagline: "Canadian physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wgunruh_phys407.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1945-08-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           12.02538
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "W. G. Unruh"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump