# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-kahan
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:33:50.575Z

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name: "William Kahan"
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description: "William \"Velvel\" Morton Kahan is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who is a professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. He received the Turing Award in 1989 for \"his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis.\""
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birthDate: "1933-06-05"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump