# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-buchan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:40:47.918Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-buchan"
name: "Alexander Buchan"
slug: "alexander-buchan"
description: "Alexander Buchan FRS FRSE was a Scottish meteorologist, oceanographer and botanist and is credited with establishing the weather map as the basis of modern weather forecasting. He also proposed the theory of Buchan Spells."
tagline: "Scottish meteorologist, oceanographer and botanist (1829-1907)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/No-nb_bldsa_1c028.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1829-04-11"
deathDate: "1907-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.42
  momentum:             0.5882352941176471
  historical:           6.538517333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Buchan"
    title: "Alexander Buchan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Buchan"
    title: "Alexander Buchan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Buchan"
    title: "Alexander Buchan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Buchan_(meteorologist)"
    title: "Alexander Buchan (meteorologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Buchan_(m%C3%A9t%C3%A9orologue)"
    title: "Alexander Buchan (météorologue)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%B3_(%E6%B0%97%E8%B1%A1%E5%AD%A6%E8%80%85)"
    title: "アレクサンダー・バッカン (気象学者)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Buchan"
    title: "Alexander Buchan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q390218"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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