# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilbur-knorr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:12:46.207Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilbur-knorr"
name: "Wilbur Knorr"
slug: "wilbur-knorr"
description: "Wilbur Richard Knorr was an American historian of mathematics and a professor in the departments of philosophy and classics at Stanford University. He has been called \"one of the most profound and certainly the most provocative historian of Greek mathematics\" of the 20th century."
tagline: "American historian of mathematics (1945–1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wilbur_Knorr_1973_headshot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-08-29"
deathDate: "1997-03-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Wilbur Knorr"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump