# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-nierenberg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:53:56.826Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-nierenberg"
name: "William Nierenberg"
slug: "william-nierenberg"
description: "William Aaron Nierenberg was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 through 1986. He was a co-founder of the George C. Marshall Institute in 1984."
tagline: "American physicist (1919-2000)"
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birthDate: "1919-02-13"
deathDate: "2000-09-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump