# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:20:22.552Z

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name: "William Thurston"
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description: "William Paul Thurston was an American mathematician. He was a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology and was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982 for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds."
tagline: "American mathematician (1946–2012)"
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birthDate: "1946-10-30"
deathDate: "2012-08-21"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump