# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-crosse
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:30:02.069Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-crosse"
name: "Andrew Crosse"
slug: "andrew-crosse"
description: "Andrew Crosse was a British scientist who was born and died at Fyne Court, Broomfield, Somerset. Crosse was an early pioneer and experimenter in the use of electricity. He became known after press reports of an electrocrystallization experiment he conducted in 1836, during which insects \"appeared\"."
tagline: "British amateur scientist (1784–1855)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andrew_Crosse.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1784-07-17"
deathDate: "1855-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.55
  momentum:             7.317073170731706
  historical:           7.019871999999999
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%8E"
    title: "Кросс, Эндрю"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "أندرو كروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "اندرو كروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Crosse"
    title: "Andrew Crosse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Crosse"
    title: "Andrew Crosse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Crosse"
    title: "Andrew Crosse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Crosse"
    title: "Andrew Crosse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Crosse"
    title: "Andrew Crosse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504287"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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