# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-e-massey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:24:16.258Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-e-massey"
name: "Walter E. Massey"
slug: "walter-e-massey"
description: "Walter Eugene Massey is an American educator, physicist, and executive. President Emeritus of both the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and of Morehouse College, he is chairman of the board overseeing construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope. During his long career, Massey has served as head of the National Science Foundation, director of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), chairman of Bank of America, and as trustee chair of the City Colleges of Chicago. He has also served in professorial and administrative posts at the University of California, University of Chicago, Brown University, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign."
tagline: "Physicist, American businessman, college president (born 1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jimmy_Carter_at_the_lab_with_Argonne_director_Walter_E._Massey.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1938-04-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             14.78558449424591
  historical:           4.82448
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "والتر إي. ماسي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والتر اى. ماسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_E._Massey"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мэсси, Уолтер"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump