# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-h-press
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:05:16.039Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-h-press"
name: "William H. Press"
slug: "william-h-press"
description: "William Henry Press is an astrophysicist, theoretical physicist, computer scientist, and computational biologist. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1989, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society \"in recognition of important theoretical contributions to relativistic astrophysics and to cosmology\" Other honors include the 1981 Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy. Press has been a member of the JASON defense advisory group since 1977 and is a past chair."
tagline: "Astrophysicist, theoretical physicist, and computational biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Press%2C_PCAST_Member_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-05-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.41422
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://numerical.recipes/whp/"
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    title: "William H. Press"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Press"
    title: "William H. Press"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Press_(scientifique)"
    title: "William Press (scientifique)"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Press"
    title: "William Henry Press"
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    title: "Пресс, Уильям Генри"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump