# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ada-watterson-yerkes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:27:10.184Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ada-watterson-yerkes"
name: "Ada Watterson Yerkes"
slug: "ada-watterson-yerkes"
description: "Ada Watterson Yerkes was an American biologist. Although she was trained as a botanist, she is best known for her work in primatology, with her husband, psychologist Robert Yerkes."
tagline: "American botanist (1873-1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Ada_Watterson.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1873-11-06"
deathDate: "1963-10-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           25.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.534017333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Watterson_Yerkes"
    title: "Ada Watterson Yerkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98860114"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations